Kameron Hurley

People interest me a lot: why we are kind, why we are cruel, how we learn the difference, what makes us act…

— 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

“Ras Tiegans fried everything, from grasshoppers to pickles to hunks of curried dog.”

— Kameron Hurley

“Humanity is a monster you can never kill.”

— Kameron Hurley

“It was men, not God, who had done those things...”

— Kameron Hurley

“We Have Always Fought': Challenging the 'Women, Cattle and Slaves' Narrative”

— Kameron Hurley

I know a lot of writers who tell me they 'always' knew how to read. They can't remember a time before reading.…

— Kameron Hurley

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

— Kameron Hurley

“Your haters are not here for a conversation. They are here to keep you from doing your work.”

— Kameron Hurley

As a science fiction and fantasy writer, I used to love writing bleak, grimdark futures full of bleak, grimdark people. But I've…

— 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

“The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books…

— Kameron Hurley

“Women are just women." Mercia's forehead wrinkled. "Those women were bel dames.”

— Kameron Hurley

“I’m not going to tell you how to start a bug-powered vehicle, I’m just going to put you inside one with somebody…

— Kameron Hurley

As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at…

— Kameron Hurley

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

— Kameron Hurley

“Nobody knows anybody. We’re all working on blind faith.”

— 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

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 enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.

— Kameron Hurley

Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.

— Kameron Hurley

“It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture?…

— 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

“Aliens bled red, just like everybody else.”

— Kameron Hurley

Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive…

— Kameron Hurley