239 Quotes by Chris Cleave

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.