If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
CHRIS CLEAVEThe 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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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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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don’t always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn’t have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.
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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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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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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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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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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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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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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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