Chris Cleave quotes

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. (Chris Cleave)
I'm not happy with just repeating myself. View quote
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I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. View quote
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Studying psychology is fun because you're always looking for the same things I think a writer should be looking for, which is the story behind the story. View quote
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I'm a much better writer for being a father. View quote
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I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. View quote
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My whole life is my work. View quote
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I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. View quote
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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. View quote
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If I can't write it would be as if I died. View quote
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This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. (Chris Cleave)
I'm really interested in people's decisions. View quote
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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. View quote
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At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on. View quote
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So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge. View quote
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Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting. View quote
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We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. View quote
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It was the month of May and there was warm sunshine dripping through the holes between the clouds, like the sky was a broken blue bowl and a child was trying to keep honey in it. View quote
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There was no quick grief for Andrew because he had been so slowly lost. First from my heart, then from my mind, and only finally from my life. (Chris Cleave)
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. View quote
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Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave

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Photo: Mogens Engelund, CC BY-SA 3.0
Occupation: British Writer
Born: May 14, 1973
Quotes count: 51

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