I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
CHRIS CLEAVEStill shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the “lost children” who feature in the novel – those come from my research.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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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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Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families, because veterans and survivors don’t tend to talk.
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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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WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
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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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