Carla H Krueger Quotes

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

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

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

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

“Books are readable drugs.”
― Carla H. Krueger

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

“People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.”
― 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

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

“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

“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’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.”
― 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

“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

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

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

“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, The Social Worker

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

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

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

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

“Writing Skinny Chris was a very odd process – it felt like I had brought back to life a dead man and then killed him again.”
― Carla H. Krueger

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