Carla Author Quotes

#1. Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Carla H. Krueger

#2. Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Carla H. Krueger

#3. The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

#5. One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#6. It was the feeling of not belonging, and longing for your familiar couch and your familiar TV with all those comforting TV people who couldn't see you.

Deb Caletti

#7. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

Carla H. Krueger

#8. One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

Carla H. Krueger

#9. I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

Carla H. Krueger

#10. 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

#11. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

Carla H. Krueger

#12. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

#13. The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

Edward Abbey

#14. I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.

Carla H. Krueger

#15. Youngsters deserve no opinions.

Carla H. Krueger

#16. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.

Carla H. Krueger

#17. I have not long to live. I have lasted more than a man's average allotted span, and while I still am hale and hearty, I know full well the hand of time , while it may miss a man at one reaping, will get him at the next.

Clifford D. Simak

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

Carla H. Krueger

#19. Fear spread through the house.

Carla H. Krueger

#20. Are we nothing but heel skin and blisters? Traveling a straight line to the end of our lives?

Ramona Ausubel

#21. Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Carla H. Krueger

#22. Forty minutes later, I leaned back in my chair, and looked at the thousand or so pages of manuscript towering on my desk. It hit me. Holy cow. This author had total control over this book. Total. And it was one of seven. One. Of. Seven.

Carla Bolte

#23. i am awake only in what i love & desire to the point of terror -- everything else is just shrouded furniture, quotidian anaesthesia, shit-for-brains, sub-reptilian ennui of totalitarian regimes, banal censorship & useless pain ...

Hakim Bey

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

Jennifer Estep

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

Carla H. Krueger

#28. I'll be your friend until you find a better one.

Carla H. Krueger

#29. Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.

Mohsin Hamid

#30. Prayer is better than pills.

Carla H. Krueger