Top 100 Krueger's Quotes
#1. (Butch Thinking) Those claws wre like daggers. they made Freddie Krueger's set of fun and games look like pipe cleaners.
J.R. Ward
#2. I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.
William Kent Krueger
#3. 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
#5. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Carla H. Krueger
#6. My mother heated Campbell's tomato soup and made grilled cheese sandwiches with Velveeta and we ate dinner and afterward watched Have Gun - Will Travel.
William Kent Krueger
#7. I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Freddy Krueger, and I love Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel like we'd be perfect for each other.
Ariel Pink
#9. Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy.
("Bums")
William Kent Krueger
#10. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.
William Kent Krueger
#11. Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.
Carla H. Krueger
#12. Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
Charlie Krueger
#13. Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.
Carla H. Krueger
#14. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Carla H. Krueger
#15. I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.
Anthony Dirrell
#16. What is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. Better, I think, to wish for her wisdom, a virtue not so fickle.
William Kent Krueger
#17. You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.
William Kent Krueger
#19. I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
Carla H. Krueger
#20. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
William Kent Krueger
#22. I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.
Robert Englund
#23. Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
William Kent Krueger
#24. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Carla H. Krueger
#25. So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
Carla H. Krueger
#26. I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.
William Kent Krueger
#27. A few machines dance in the air, an orderly has to be sedated, and suddenly you're Freddy freakin' Krueger.
Jennifer Harlow
#28. And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
William Kent Krueger
#29. If we put everything in God's hands, maybe we don't have to be afraid anymore.
William Kent Krueger
#30. In every human being, there are two wolves constantly fighting. One is fear, and the other is love. When Cork had asked which of the wolves won the battle, Meloux's answer had been: The one you feed. Always the one you feed.
William Kent Krueger
#31. Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.
William Kent Krueger
#32. Sam's Place had never felt so empty. He suspected the emptiness was not in the old Quonset hut; it was in him. There was nothing in him now, nothing but the great emptiness of death, which he seemed to carry with him like a virus.
William Kent Krueger
#33. I always feel anxious if anyone's close to uncovering my secrets.
Carla H. Krueger
#34. Cork, promise me something." "What?" "You won't do anything that'll get you hurt." "I'm not what you'd call a brave man," he assured her. She sighed, her breath making the hair at the back of his neck shiver. "Maybe not, but you're stubborn, and that's just as bad." After
William Kent Krueger
#35. It's hard to stop people comparing their world with the world they imagine you to have.
Carla H. Krueger
#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.
Carla H. Krueger
#37. 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
#38. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
Carla H. Krueger
#40. I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time.
CM Punk
#42. He scares the shit out of me, and I used to work for people who made Freddie Krueger look like Mr. Rogers. (Carlos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#43. When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
William Kent Krueger
#44. Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.
William Kent Krueger
#45. 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.
Carla H. Krueger
#46. Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.
William Kent Krueger
#47. I need some-" Cork thought a moment. "I was going to say advice, but the truth is, I need some guidance, Tom."
"We all do sometimes. It's not always easy to admit.
William Kent Krueger
#49. And what I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.
William Kent Krueger
#50. Loss, once it's become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It's solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.
William Kent Krueger
#53. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
Carla H. Krueger
#55. There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
Carla H. Krueger
#56. On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy
Krueger.
Granuaile MacTiernan
Kevin Hearne
#57. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Carla H. Krueger
#58. I watched the storm as I might have watched the approach and passing of a fierce and beautiful animal. The
William Kent Krueger
#59. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
Carla H. Krueger
#60. 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
#63. Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?
William Kent Krueger
#64. They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.
William Kent Krueger
#66. At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.
William Kent Krueger
#67. 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.
Carla H. Krueger
#69. Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay.
Alan Krueger
#70. It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.
Andrew Davidson
#73. You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
Carla H. Krueger
#74. 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
#76. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Lana Parrilla
#77. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Carla H. Krueger
#78. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
Carla H. Krueger
#79. 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
#80. Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.
William Kent Krueger
#82. Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.
William Kent Krueger
#83. I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. Take
William Kent Krueger
#84. What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
Nick Saban
#86. We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.
Jim Krueger
#87. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
Carla H. Krueger
#88. Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
Carla H. Krueger
#89. If it was true, as Henry Meloux said, that he'd heard the Windigo call his name, he understood why now. Because it felt exactly as if his heart had just been torn out of him and devoured.
William Kent Krueger
#90. Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
Sean Price
#92. I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?
William Kent Krueger
#93. 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
#94. I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
Carla H. Krueger
#95. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.
William Kent Krueger
#98. Although I'd had no trouble looking at the casket the day before, on that Saturday I did my best to keep my eyes averted. I stared instead at the stained-glass window behind the altar and imagined shooting the panes out with a slingshot.
William Kent Krueger
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