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Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
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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Character Research Writing
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
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
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’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
Death, of course, is a refuge. It’s where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It’s where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.
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Capes Names Running
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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Brave Easy Sometimes
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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Alive Mean Stories
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
[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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Children Teacher War
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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Generations Golden Thinking
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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Built Woman Wreckage
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
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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Clouds Girl Summer

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