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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

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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Alive Mean Stories
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
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
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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Bad Day Giving Lazy
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Fit Soul World
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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Country Horror Suffering
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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Cry Pity Understood
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
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving

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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