Top 71 Carla Krueger Quotes
#1. Life isn't over until you're dead. Another ultra-positive, ultra-motivational tweet to improve your day. You're welcome.
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#2. There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.
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#3. Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
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#4. Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.
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#7. The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
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#8. People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.
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#9. When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
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#10. When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
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#11. No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.
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#13. I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
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#14. Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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#15. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
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#17. She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers.
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#18. People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
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#19. I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
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#20. Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears.
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#21. Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.
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#22. Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside.
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#23. Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
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#26. I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets.
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#27. I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
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#30. I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
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#31. 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.
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#32. Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.
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#33. It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have.
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#34. 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.
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#35. The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
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#36. Where's your dog?' I ask quickly. 'Dawn said you had a dog. Let's take the dog out.'
'There ain't no dog,' replies Janis.
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#37. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
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#38. I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
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#43. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
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#44. There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
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#45. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#53. You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
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#54. 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.
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#55. So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
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#56. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
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#58. Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.
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#59. Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.
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#60. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
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#62. I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
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#63. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
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#65. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
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#66. Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
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#68. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
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#69. Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
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#70. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
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