Kameron Hurley

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

— Kameron Hurley

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

— Kameron Hurley

I write for free online out of love, passion, and often, rage.

— Kameron Hurley

“The cunt is not the heart, though a lot of people get the two confused.”

— Kameron Hurley

Life was what you did with what was done to you.

— Kameron Hurley

I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.

— Kameron Hurley

“What is love anyway but a hunger no meal can satisfy?”

— Kameron Hurley

“This trip just went from fucked up to totally fucking crazy shit.”

— Kameron Hurley

“We kill a few people to stop a lot of people dying," Nyx said. "Wars kill a lot of people to keep…

— Kameron Hurley

“But I find soldiering false, a broken way to manage people who should be bound to you in love, not fear.”

— Kameron Hurley

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

Let’s just put it this way: if you think there’s a thing – anything – women didn’t do in the past, you’re…

— Kameron Hurley

“I’m passionately interested in truth: truth is something that happens whether or not we see it, or believe it, or write about.…

— Kameron Hurley

“He's grown into quite the young man since you took him in." "You say that like being a man's a good thing,"…

— Kameron Hurley

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

— Kameron Hurley

“I hate surprises, boss. The last surprise I got, somebody died. Yeah, well. the last surprise I got, I went to prison.”

— Kameron Hurley

Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it…

— Kameron Hurley

The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the…

— Kameron Hurley

I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to…

— Kameron Hurley

“I thought you loved all this excitement,' Nyx said. 'I love orange-flavored popsicles. Fried maggots on toast. Sunset in Ashura. This? This,…

— Kameron Hurley

When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was…

— Kameron Hurley

Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went…

— Kameron Hurley

“Nyx was not a nice woman. She knew she didn’t deal with nice women. But she also knew the worst sorts of…

— Kameron Hurley

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we…

— Kameron Hurley

“When people come to me about fears of public speaking while fat, about heckling, about online harassment, I feel it necessary to…

— Kameron Hurley

“Language is a powerful thing, and it changes the way we view ourselves, and other people, in delightful and horrifying ways. Anyone…

— Kameron Hurley

As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past…

— Kameron Hurley

“When I was sixteen, I wrote an essay about why women should remain barred from combat in the U.S. military. I found…

— Kameron Hurley

“Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as asking women to suppress…

— Kameron Hurley

“And for the first time, I pity her, because when she says love, I think she really means it. For her, this…

— Kameron Hurley

“He picked up her gun. Pointed it at her. Pulled the trigger. Isabet jumped like a startled lizard. He handed the gun…

— Kameron Hurley

“Come on now,” Arankadash says, “I’m halfway through my pregnancy and you don’t see me whining about it.” “I thought there weren’t…

— Kameron Hurley

“On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was that we have so many stories…

— Kameron Hurley

“But the moment we reimagine the world as a buzzing hive of individuals with a variety of genders and complicated sexes and…

— Kameron Hurley

“Most people actually ignore things out of the ordinary. Or, worse, hope that someone else will take care of it. I remember…

— Kameron Hurley

“I dream of a woman with a great craven face walking along the surface of a massive world. She is a titan.…

— Kameron Hurley

“I had no idea what to say to this. I had been nurtured in the U.S. school system on a steady diet…

— Kameron Hurley

“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma…

— Kameron Hurley

“When I sat down with one of my senior professors in Durban, South Africa to talk about my Master’s thesis, he asked…

— Kameron Hurley

“I often tell people that I’m the biggest self-aware misogynist I know. I was writing a scene last night between a woman…

— Kameron Hurley