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" If your entire conception of what's possible in fantasy only comes from other fantasy books, you're going to go on to create a copy of a copy of a copy. There's nothing original there, nothing dynamic. Which is fine if that's your goal, but I've always wanted to do something no one else was doing before. "

Kameron Hurley

Goal

Create

You

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" Many people don't even want to start something until they feel fairly confident that they will be a success at it. But me? I love to throw myself into things headfirst and fail all over the place. "

Kameron Hurley

Success

Start

" As for the best '80s action movie, I'm going to be predictable here and say 'Die Hard.' I watch that movie at least twice a year. Perfect script. "

" Novel writing, like so many things in life, is an iterative process. You come at it again and again, working at it like you would a piece of pottery or a stone sculpture, chipping away the parts that don't make sense, smoothing over the rough edges. "

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

Kameron Hurley

Understand

Professional

" We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones. "

" Folks will always, always, always go back to the comfortable status quo, with its silent voices and lack of conflict, if you give them the chance. "

Kameron Hurley

Conflict

You

" There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet. "

" 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. "

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

" What I found so captivating about the idea of being a writer was having the ability to write down all these things I made up in my head so other people could see them. "

" I'm the sort of writer who likes to leave doors open for readers. "

" 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.' "

" The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children's cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature. "

" This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader. "

" 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. "

" Watching the progression and backlash against feminism even since 1970 will give you a serious case of whiplash. "

" What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false. "

Kameron Hurley

Society

Thinking

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" While many alternate reality stories ask, 'What might have been?' parallel universe stories literalize the war between good and evil that plays inside each of us every day. It's what makes this type of story so perfect for many fantasy tales: we're all just a coin flip away from being entirely different people. "

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

" Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't. "

" 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. "

" I want to be constantly in awe of the possibilities of the universe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new and interesting ways. "