Kameron Hurley Quotes

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

I didn't want to write the same book over and over.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has become my trademark.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew I could only do that a few times before I was in danger of repeating myself.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Agents and publishers are always looking for something 'different,' a fresh viewpoint and a new voice, not just re-hashed versions of stuff that's gone before.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

When creating 'Cowboy Bebop,' I thought it would be more interesting if I added different types of elements together to create something that was completely new.

When Wes has a new a project, you know that it's going to be something as different as the previous was from the previous one. Each time, he tries to take you to a country, or a land that is unknown for you and for him, and reinvent this land. That's what he did with 'Darjeeling,' with 'Mr. Fox,' with 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.