Books Quote by Kameron Hurley Download Open image “Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.” — Kameron Hurley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Magical Make More Pretend Up
“You know that saying "you couldn't make it up"? It's complete nonsense, of COURSE you could make it up. Otherwise how else do authors… — Ray Daley Copy Share Image
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff. — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“A novel is a made-up work about made-up people in a made-up place, all of which is very real.” — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real. — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible. — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance,… — Obert Skye 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 Image
“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 Image
'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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Know that you're gonna screw up, and be OK with it, and do better next time. — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
