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 CLEAVEYet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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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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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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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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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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My maternal grandmother was in London during the Blitz. Indeed, the man she was dating before she met my grandfather was killed beside her in a cinema, in 1941, when a bomb came through the roof – a tragedy in which she herself was badly wounded.
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Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
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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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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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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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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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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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