I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
CHRIS CLEAVEI know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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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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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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.
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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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