Chris Cleave Quotes

Chris Cleave

British Writer

Born: 1973

Always Athletes Being People Think Writing

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

Would Would-Be Write Died

I'm not happy with just repeating myself. Chris Cleave

Myself Happy Repeating Just

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. Chris Cleave

Knowledge Sometimes Extremely Slightly Tormented Athletes Something Small Could Beaten Had Spoken Accept Been Years Quicker Done Different Happened Afterwards Them Hard Who Ever Margin Second

This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. Chris Cleave

Married Like Being Lovers Thing

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

There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two. Chris Cleave

People Say People Say Between Like Difference Mean Explore Two

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