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I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

Chris Cleave

I’m always determined that as a novelist I’m going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
CHRIS CLEAVE

Character Research Writing
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
I write in the novel’s afterword that our recent wars “finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date and a presumption that we shall never be reconciled with the enemy”.
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Enemy War Writing
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Armistice Ends War
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Thinking
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Bravery Mean Thinking

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