diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 456b504..4b1b405 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # implyr (development version)
 
+* Fixed bugs in table creation (#47, @karoliskascenas)
 * Added more SQL translations
 
 # implyr 0.3.0
diff --git a/R/db-impala.R b/R/db-impala.R
index d5e60d2..0390464 100644
--- a/R/db-impala.R
+++ b/R/db-impala.R
@@ -719,6 +719,12 @@ db_create_table.impala_connection <-
     is_nchar_one_string_or_null(field_terminator),
     is_nchar_one_string_or_null(line_terminator)
   )
+  if (isTRUE(grepl("^[[:cntrl:]]{1}$", field_terminator))) {
+    field_terminator <- gsub("\"", "", deparse(field_terminator), fixed = TRUE)
+  }
+  if (isTRUE(grepl("^[[:cntrl:]]{1}$", line_terminator))) {
+    line_terminator <- gsub("\"", "", deparse(line_terminator), fixed = TRUE)
+  }
   if (temporary) {
     stop(
       "Impala does not support temporary tables. Set temporary = FALSE in db_create_table().",
@@ -743,6 +749,8 @@ db_create_table.impala_connection <-
                    },
                    ident(table),
                    " ",
+                   fields,
+                   " ",
                    if (!is.null(field_terminator) ||
                        !is.null(line_terminator)) {
                      sql("ROW FORMAT DELIMITED ")
@@ -756,7 +764,6 @@ db_create_table.impala_connection <-
                    if (!is.null(file_format)) {
                      sql(paste0("STORED AS ", file_format, " "))
                    },
-                   fields,
                    con = con)
   dbExecute(con, sql)
 }
diff --git a/R/src_impala.R b/R/src_impala.R
index 359fe92..6d7f8af 100644
--- a/R/src_impala.R
+++ b/R/src_impala.R
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ copy_to.src_impala <-
            temporary = TRUE,
            unique_indexes = NULL,
            indexes = NULL,
-           analyze = TRUE,
+           analyze = FALSE,
            external = FALSE,
            force = FALSE,
            field_terminator = NULL,
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ copy_to.src_impala <-
         external = external,
         force = force,
         field_terminator = field_terminator,
-        line_terminator = field_terminator,
+        line_terminator = line_terminator,
         file_format = file_format,
         ...
       )
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-copy_to.R b/tests/testthat/test-copy_to.R
index af08079..5c2b43d 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-copy_to.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-copy_to.R
@@ -7,7 +7,14 @@ test_that("copy_to() succeeds on a very small data frame", {
   table_name <- paste0(sample(letters, 10, replace = TRUE), collapse = "")
   dbExecute(impala, paste0("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS ", table_name))
   Sys.sleep(2)
-  copy_to(impala, nycflights13::airlines[1:5, ], name = table_name, temporary = FALSE, analyze = FALSE)
+  copy_to(
+    impala,
+    nycflights13::airlines[1:5, ],
+    name = table_name,
+    temporary = FALSE,
+    field_terminator = "\t",
+    line_terminator = "\n"
+  )
   airlines_impala <-
     dbGetQuery(impala, paste0("SELECT * FROM ", table_name, " ORDER BY carrier"))
   # right-trim variable length strings because RJDBC pads them with spaces