Kameron Hurley

Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try…

— Kameron Hurley

“I've bled and fucked and died for this country," Nyx said.”

— 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

“you only really fail when you give up.”

— 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

“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

Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people…

— Kameron Hurley

“Because you may find yourself in a very bad position, Rohinmey,” Dasai said. “If things go wrong, I do not want you…

— Kameron Hurley

“I'm a bloodletter, not a politician," Nyx said. "I just take off heads.”

— Kameron Hurley

“Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in…

— 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

What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things…

— 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

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

— Kameron Hurley

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

— Kameron Hurley

“(...) then went into his room in the middle of the night after a long, heavy day of footwork and drinking; a…

— 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 can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of,…

— Kameron Hurley

“Bodies are only beautiful if they aren’t yours.”

— Kameron Hurley

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

What does it matter, if we tell the same old stories? ...Stories tell us who we are. What we’re capable of. When…

— 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 think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do…

— Kameron Hurley

Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.

— Kameron Hurley

As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That…

— Kameron Hurley