I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
CHRIS CLEAVESad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.
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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 planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Yet war doesn’t end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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 not happy with just repeating myself.
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I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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And thus love makes fools of us all.
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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 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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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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