Chris Cleave Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Talking, Stories

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Chris Cleave

  Hate, Anger, Writing

• 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.

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Character, Research

• If I can't write it would be as if I died.

  Chris Cleave

  Writing, Would Be, Died

• 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".

  Chris Cleave

  War, Writing, Enemy

  ""We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test"--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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