189 Quotes by Kameron Hurley

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.

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

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

I'm a naturally lazy person, and I live for a challenge.

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

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'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.

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

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.