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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.