Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

Canada, Writer
December 20, 1960

Nalo Hopkinson (born 20 December 1960) is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms) and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.

Also known as Editor, Science Fiction Writer

Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

Nalo Hopkinson
- Home
- Peace
- Friendship
When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

Nalo Hopkinson

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

Nalo Hopkinson
- Respect
I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

Nalo Hopkinson
- World