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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Cleave

Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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Dare Refuge Understand
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
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
[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’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
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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Bad Day Giving Lazy
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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Firsts Mind Wells
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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Andrew Began Inciosn People
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
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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Dying Mean Scar
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
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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Ambulance Birmingham Grandmother
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
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Down Nobody Principles World
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
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
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.

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