Carla H. Krueger Quotes

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

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

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

~ 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

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

~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

~ Carla H. Krueger

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

~ 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

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

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

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

~ Carla H. Krueger

My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.

~ Carla H. Krueger

I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call food.

~ Carla H. Krueger

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

~ 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

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

~ 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

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

~ Carla H. Krueger

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

~ Carla H. Krueger

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

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

~ Carla H. Krueger