Carla H. Krueger

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.

Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

It__ 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.

I suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.

I like to think I__e written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.

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

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

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

My best writing happens when I__ fighting to produce it.

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

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

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.

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

I__ 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__ an experimenter. I__ open to different ways of thinking. I like exaggerating, making things up. I__ a very open, honest person in life and that__ 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__e 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__ why I love it.

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