Carla H. Krueger Quotes
When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
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.
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.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
Are there not times, Ridley, when you yourself wish only to hear the best in people – and not to be dragged downwards into the underworld we all regularly inhabit?
You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.
I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
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.
I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.
He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.
The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.
Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome.
Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends – sorry, I meant characters.
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
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.
