I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly pleased to be working with Marco Palmieri and Tor Books on 'The Geek Feminist Revolution.' This was an exciting book… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? -… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“I was limited by stories that came before mine. We are so often limited by our own expectations of stories, by the… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of,… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
“Living is the purpose, Roh. For however long we have to do it, we live. That's all. That's all the ever was." "We aren't… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
“Nyx was not a nice woman. She knew she didn’t deal with nice women. But she also knew the worst sorts of things these… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
Short fiction isn't my natural form. It's taken a lot of work over the years to finally feel more comfortable writing stories under 80,000 words! — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
I don't like to write about things that bore me, and that means I steer far clear of writing books that are just like… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
“Rumour has it you've turned castration into an occupation." "You go cutting one guy's cock off and you never hear the end of it,"… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share
