Carla H. Krueger Quotes & Sayings

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

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

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads. — Carla H. Krueger

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food". — Carla H. Krueger

When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

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

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down. — 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

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

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

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

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome. — Carla H. Krueger

When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write. — Carla H. Krueger

Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort. — Carla H. Krueger

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever. — Carla H. Krueger

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

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies. — 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

My best writing happens when I'm fighting to produce it. — Carla H. Krueger

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart. — Carla H. Krueger

I can love what is broken. — 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

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

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book. — Carla H. Krueger

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome. — 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

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

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics. — Carla H. Krueger

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

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind. — Carla H. Krueger

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

I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were. — Carla H. Krueger

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

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

Youngsters deserve no opinions. — Carla H. Krueger

Fear spread through the house. — Carla H. Krueger

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

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner. — Carla H. Krueger

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

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

Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves. — 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

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

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

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

It's much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that. — Carla H. Krueger

Books are readable drugs. — 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

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