The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard and give it everything you have.
CHRIS CLEAVEA 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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