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.
CHRIS CLEAVEThe 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.
More Chris Cleave Quotes
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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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A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
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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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I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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There’s what people say, and there’s what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
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Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
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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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We no longer need to show people being brave: instead, we can examine how they became brave. We can assume that they didn’t start out that way. If we allow that they started out just like us, then their journey into courage becomes both more fascinating and more impressive.
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I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
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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 am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
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