Author Carla H Krueger Quotes

I'll be your friend until you find a better one. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Prayer is better than pills. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Youngsters deserve no opinions. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

Shush – it's silent time again. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Fear spread through the house. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

To cut a long story short, I'm a writer. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

Books are readable drugs. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives. ~ Carla H. Krueger

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I can love what is broken. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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

One man's fight is another man's freedom. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned. ~ Carla H. Krueger

You're my prey tonight. ~ Carla H. Krueger

I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways. ~ Carla H. Krueger

She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her. ~ Carla H. Krueger

The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves. ~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories. ~ Carla H. Krueger