Carla H. Krueger Quotes

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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There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
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People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
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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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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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There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
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It’s much harder to twist the charitable arm of a lottery winner compared to that of a man at his lowest ebb. It sounds like the wrong way round at first, but when you really put your nut to it, people are more frightened of losing the big shit than of having fuck all to begin with and losing a bit of that.
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I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.
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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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I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
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I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
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If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
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I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
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My best writing happens when I’m fighting to produce it.
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I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.
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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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I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I’m an experimenter. I’m open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I’m a very open, honest person in life and that’s the way it should be, but when it comes to fiction, I want to pour a few sharp objects into the comfort zone. Our fears are powerful, yet we’ve all got a desire to laugh and be entertained. I could have followed the same path I do now as a scientist, examining how the brain works. Ironically I get much more freedom to experiment as a writer. That’s why I love it.
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The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
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Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
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Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
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It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
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When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
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I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
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Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
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Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.
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Writing is more about telling other peoples' stories than your own
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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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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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Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
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I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.
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Nader refused to bring her the feathery dream catcher – her asabikeshiinh – with its willow-web and invisible ‘lady spider’ apparently weaving her spells – an object Bea insisted always hung above her in bed.
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Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.
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Welcome to Sex Media, Where Fantasy Becomes Reality!
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Names can hide so much.
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This is no place for limits.
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It is not fiction. It is history. And both their histories match now.
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This is a landscape of dreams cemented in the past, of hopes gone cold, of girls and boys for rent in officially empty tower blocks, where none is truly so.
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The loudest silence is camera silence.
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When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
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All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
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When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
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Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
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Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.
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Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.
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Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.
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To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.
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He’s in a side room alone with her and it’s far too fucking hot.
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You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.
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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?
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I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.
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Maxwell D. Kalist is a receiving teller at a city bank, Orwell and Finch, where he runs an efficient department of twenty two clerks and twelve junior clerks. He carries a leather-bound vade mecum everywhere with him – a handbook of the most widely contravened banking rules. He works humourlessly (on the surface of it) in a private, perfectly square office on the third floor of a restored grain exchange midway along the Eastern flank of Květniv’s busy, modern central plaza. Behind his oblong slate desk and black leather swivel chair is an intimidating, three-storey wall made almost entirely of bevelled, glare-reducing grey glass in art-deco style; one hundred and thirty six rectangles of gleam stacked together in a dangerously heavy collage.
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Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats meat for lunch. On Wednesdays, he places a bet after work. On Thursdays, he smokes one cigarette (but claims he’s not a smoker). On Fridays, he treats himself to his favourite pastime: horse practice – he grew up with horses and likes to try and emulate their distinctive whinnies, snorts, neighs, snuffles, sighs, grunts, fluttering nostrils, the occasional aggressive outburst and the especially beautiful nicker of a mare to her foal. And, on Saturdays, lest we forget, Maxwell D. Kalist drinks wine from a chalice.
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Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.
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Shame comes in different doses.
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It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.
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Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.
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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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I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
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Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.
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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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