Carla H. Krueger > Quotes

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

“Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.”
― Carla H Krueger, From the Horse’s Mouth

“Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.”
― Amaya Ellman

“I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction – it speaks out on behalf of everyone, for us all to see.”
― 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

“I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

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

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

“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

“He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.”
― Carla H Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun

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

“I can love what is broken.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Sex Media

“Shame comes in different doses.”
― Carla H Krueger, From the Horse’s Mouth

“You’re my prey tonight.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Sex Media

“I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“Rare contact creates a stir. Gossip spreads. Tensions build. Denying Pissec, miserable Obelmäker and repressed Baumauer are all seething-jealous – openly or reservedly – within the hour. The pay rise promise is working a treat. Brichacek’s licking the tip of a pencil with her sticky pink tongue. “Stop flirting,” he tells her, but he looks at her breasts and thinks, The girls with the bruises in the sex films are just dead dolls, but this pretty toy is alive.”
― Carla H Krueger, From the Horse’s Mouth

“Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.”
― Carla H Krueger, From the Horse’s Mouth

“There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.”
― Carla H. Krueger

“I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.”
― Amaya Ellman

“I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.”
― Carla H Krueger

“I always feel anxious if anyone’s close to uncovering my secrets.”
― Carla H Krueger, The Social Worker

“I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.”
― Carla H Krueger

“She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.”
― Carla H. Krueger, Sex Media

“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

“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

“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

“Books are readable drugs.”
― 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