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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.
- Kameron Hurley
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#Good And Evil
#Good
#Reality
#War
Your enemies love your failures, sure. But what they love even more is to see you brought so low by those failures that you never get up again. Sometimes enemies aren't even external. Often, our biggest critic, our greatest enemy, is ourselves.
- Kameron Hurley
#Enemies
#Enemy
#Love
#See
#Sometimes
My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.
- Kameron Hurley
#Curse
#Language
#Parents
#Us
#Words
As an introverted kid who lived in the middle of nowhere, my stories made up the whole of my social life. That meant that while other kids cultivated hobbies like skateboarding or playing the piano, I sat at home scribbling in notebooks.
- Kameron Hurley
#Hobbies
#Home
#Life
#Social Life
#Social
I can't change the preconceived notions a reader brings to a work, but I can do my best to be aware of, address, and subvert tropes and expectations that readers may have as best I can and hope I don't screw it up too much.
- Kameron Hurley
#Best
#Change
#Expectations
#Hope
#Work
I started writing 'God's War' knowing that I wanted to write about real people on a resource-strapped planet at perpetual war.
- Kameron Hurley
#God
#Knowing
#People
#Real
#War
I've always been interested in the politics of war. War is one of those things that, the longer I studied it, the more illogical it seemed.
- Kameron Hurley
#Always
#More
#Politics
#Things
#War
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.
- Kameron Hurley
#Children
#Literature
#Reality
#Start
Historically, science-fiction and fantasy literature is no stranger to controversy, but it has learned how to adapt and endure.
- Kameron Hurley
#Adapt
#Fantasy
#Literature
#Stranger
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
#Easy
#Lost
#New
#Possible
#Praise
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
#Biology
#Live
#Space
#Travel
#Understand
Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.
- Kameron Hurley
#Magical
#Make
#More
#Pretend
#Up
When I was a kid, I watched a lot of 'Twilight Zone.' My mother was obsessed with the show, as it was a staple of her childhood - and thus she made it one of ours, too.
- Kameron Hurley
#Childhood
#Mother
#She
#Show
#Twilight
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.
- Kameron Hurley
#Ability
#Down
#Head
#People
#See
Writers 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
#King
#Long Time
#Long
#Obsession
#Time
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.
- Kameron Hurley
#Life
#Process
#Sculpture
#Sense
#Stone
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
#History
#Me
#Society
#Thinking
#Time
I enjoy challenging myself in new and different ways.
- Kameron Hurley
#Different
#Enjoy
#Myself
#New
#Ways
I think anger of any kind is valuable. It's all about learning how to channel it. The worst thing we can do is get bored or complacent or worse - suppress our anger and then see it burst forth in unhealthy ways.
- Kameron Hurley
#Anger
#Learning
#See
#Valuable
#Worst
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