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Kameron Hurley Quotes

American - Writer | -

I want to write books that keep people up at night, where they cry through the first forty pages and keep reading anyway.

People Night Reading Cry Want First

I started writing books because I couldn't find the books I wanted to read on the shelf.

Writing Find Started Because Books

I've told people before that I don't want to be a part of a genre; I want to be my own genre. I want to create it.

People Create Want My Own Own Genre

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 it all for it to work for me.

Work Science Me Writing World Need

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

Stress People Young Meet Heroes Own

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.

Culture Facts Morals Remember Down

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.

Science Job World Dark Create Go

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.

Love Women Future Power Science Men

There is no greater threat to progress than the phrase, 'That's impossible.'

Progress Impossible Greater Threat

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.

Live Travel Space Choose Biology

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.

Imagination Mind Limits Thrive True

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.

Future Technology Innovation Vision

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