Author Profile
Kameron Hurley
American • Writer
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Showing 60 quotesWriters of all things speculative have played in alternate and parallel worlds for a long time - everyone from Stephen King to Philip Pullman to Tanith Lee - and it's an obsession that likely isn't going away any time soon.— Kameron Hurley
I think that there's this idea - especially for male readers, but female readers as well, because we're all indoctrinated, right? - where there's this idea that if a woman is tough, it can only be in a way that is still sexy.— Kameron Hurley
I tried to be really nice and like the things other people liked and do the things other people were supposed to do, and what you find out is that they're going to bully you anyway. And I thought, 'You know what? If I'm going to get bullied anyway, I might as well get bullied for making a difference in the world.'— 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
Once readers and industry professionals have you pegged down as writing a particular type of book, they are less likely to try something new from you if they decided they didn't like the first one.— Kameron Hurley
Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.— 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 just like what's on the shelves.— Kameron Hurley
Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash.— Kameron Hurley
I read and write speculative fiction because I want to go someplace really different.— Kameron Hurley
Creating a future requires a profound and yes, unrealistic, vision of what is possible. But it is fantasy and wonder that drive technology and innovation.— Kameron Hurley
Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's possible is like imposing a steel trap over the mind.— Kameron Hurley
I understand that space travel and expansion is just as much about altering ourselves, our attitudes, our social structures, our very biology, as it is about altering the places we choose to live.— Kameron Hurley
When we see sexist and racist behavior, the only way to change that is also to point it out and make it clear that it's not okay.— Kameron Hurley
As both an essayist and science fiction and fantasy novelist, I write about and for the future. I talk about the past to remind us that what we believe has always been true - that men and women are somehow static categories, or that men in power has always been the default, or that same-sex love affairs were always taboo - has not always been thus.— Kameron Hurley
Science fiction writers create all sorts of futures - that comes with the job. But it's not the type that matters - hopeful or dark - it's the variety we see as readers. It's nurturing the imaginations of those who will go on to create the world around us.— Kameron Hurley
Storytelling is a universal: every culture does it. There's a reason our religious books aren't simply a list of shall-and-shall-nots. Morals and teachings are contained in stories, which are studied, dissected, and passed down; we remember stories in a way we don't remember lists of facts.— Kameron Hurley