Carla Quotes

Carla Quote of the day

Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.

I want a man with nuclear power.

You are a more powerful person than you might have ever imagined.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

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

Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.

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.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

Secrets are dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.

When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.

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?

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

To Kalist, Baumauer’s just a timber bridge in need of a good hot fire.

Every time I so much as blink you get an erection.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

Don’t mock my suggestions, Ridley – one day in the near future, they might just save your life.” Maxwell D. Kalist.

It’s late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money.

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

Without pride, man becomes a parasite – and there are already too many parasites.

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

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

I’m much more than a writer – I’m someone who puts different words together in an interesting way.

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

Love won't kill you.-Carla

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 suffered my own battles. I suffer still.

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.

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.

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

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

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

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

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

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

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

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

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Books are readable drugs.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

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.

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

Shame comes in different doses.

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.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.