Top 40 Carla H. Krueger Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “People who don’t read fiction are scared of what’s inside their own heads.”

— Carla H. Krueger

2. “The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.”

— Carla H. Krueger

3. “Names can hide so much.”

— Carla H. Krueger

4. “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

5. “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

6. “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

7. “You’re my prey tonight.”

— 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. “Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.”

— Carla H. Krueger

10. “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.”

— Carla H. Krueger

11. “There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.”

— Carla H. Krueger

12. “He is polite; the perfect gentleman at first. Yet she knows his kindness is an act he performs for himself to justify what he’s about to do.”

— Carla H. Krueger

13. “I laugh at the way some people think graffiti is all selfish tagging and vandalism. Thoughtful street art is like good fiction – it speaks out on behalf of everyone, for us all to see.”

— Carla H. Krueger

14. “The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.”

— Carla H. Krueger

15. “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.”

— Carla H. Krueger

16. “Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.”

— Carla H. Krueger

17. “Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.”

— Carla H. Krueger

18. “Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can’t be and say what I can’t say in everyday life.”

— Carla H. Krueger

19. “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

20. “The only difference between writers and people who don’t write is that writers aren’t afraid to display their demons.”

— Carla H. Krueger

21. “When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.”

— Carla H. Krueger

22. “There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn’t.”

— Carla H. Krueger

23. “She is intent on pleasing the men that frighten her.”

— Carla H. Krueger

24. “This is no place for limits.”

— Carla H. Krueger

25. “First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.”

— Carla H. Krueger

26. “I can love what is broken.”

— Carla H. Krueger

27. “When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I’ve found what freedom really means.”

— Carla H. Krueger

28. “Reading a book that challenges you is the best way to practice facing real-world fears.”

— Carla H. Krueger

29. “I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.”

— Carla H. Krueger

30. “The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.”

— Carla H. Krueger

31. “It’s better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.”

— Carla H. Krueger

32. “Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.”

— Carla H. Krueger

33. “I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.”

— Carla H. Krueger

34. “Writing is more about telling other peoples’ stories than your own.”

— Carla H. Krueger

35. “It is not fiction. It is history. And both their histories match now.”

— Carla H. Krueger

36. “Books are readable drugs.”

— Carla H. Krueger

37. “Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.”

— Carla H. Krueger

38. “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

39. “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

40. “The loudest silence is camera silence.”

— Carla H. Krueger

41. “Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we’ve ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.”

— Carla H. Krueger

42. “When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I’ve known who had no voice.”

— Carla H. Krueger

43. “Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn’t always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

44. “Someone asked me, ‘How do you write a book?’ I said, ‘I live with a pen in one hand.”

— Carla H. Krueger

45. “When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.”

— Carla H. Krueger