And thus love makes fools of us all.
CHRIS CLEAVEI think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
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My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
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This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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If I can’t write it would be as if I died.
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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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At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.
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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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Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
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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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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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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
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Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
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I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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