Carla Author Quotes

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

Carla H. Krueger

#2. Prayer is better than pills.

Carla H. Krueger

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

Mohsin Hamid

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Jennifer Estep

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Ramona Ausubel

#13. Fear spread through the house.

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

#15. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

#17. Youngsters deserve no opinions.

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

#19. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

#22. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger

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

Carla H. Krueger