Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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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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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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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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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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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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