Books Quote by Kameron Hurley Download Open image ““The most dangerous lie we tell ourselves is that writing novels shouldn't feel like a job.”” — Kameron Hurley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dangerous Lie Lie Tell Novels Shouldn Tell Writing Writing Novels
“Writers are compulsive liars desperately trying to tell themselves the truth.” — Anthony Marais Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is just like life ... it's only in the doing of it that I find out what works.” — Angela Young Copy Share Image
“story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs… — Glen Carter Copy Share Image
“I write what I feel, fiction with a twist of truth. I don't write because I want to, I write because I have to.” — Jack Tate Copy Share Image
“I hate writing, I hate pens and paper and all that fussiness. I have done well enough without it too, I think. Oh, I… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Fiction is the most dangerous place in the world; that’s where truth lives.” — Karina Szczurek Copy Share Image
“I'm a novelist. Anything you say can be taken down and used against you in a work of fiction.” — Anne R. Allen Copy Share Image
“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.” — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the… — Javier Marías 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