Carla H. Krueger Quotes

Prayer is better than pills.

Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

I like to think I've written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

I'm an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I'm an experimenter. I'm open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I'm a very open, honest person in life and that's the way it should be, but when it comes to fiction, I want to pour a few sharp objects into the comfort zone. Our fears are powerful, yet we've all got a desire to laugh and be entertained. I could have followed the same path I do now as a scientist, examining how the brain works. Ironically I get much more freedom to experiment as a writer. That's why I love it.

So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer.

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.

I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Books are readable drugs.

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it's the Beach Boys' California Dreamin'. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they've put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. 'Hear you're a surfer boy!' she says and she mimics riding a wave.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.

For no real reason – well, perhaps because of the seriousness under the trees or Nader's hair, which was very messy and covered in little grass seeds – Katie began to giggle. She knew it was wrong, yet it was also natural. She covered her mouth with both hands, but Nader was already pale with revulsion. He turned and marched away into unwanted sunlight, leaving her to wonder why bad things happened and why no good person prevented them.

You're my prey tonight.

She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.

Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis.

Shush – it's silent time again.

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.

Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.

There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Fear spread through the house.

One man's fight is another man's freedom.

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.

I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.

Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.

We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives.

I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears.

Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.

I'll be your friend until you find a better one.

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have.

I can love what is broken.

When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.