Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave
Chris Cleaveis a British writer and journalist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
men faces your-face
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
wreckage built
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
soul world fit
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
lovers married being-married
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
writing would-be died
If I can't write it would be as if I died.
mean differences two
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
bad-day giving lazy
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.
fun thinking psychology
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.
athlete years different
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.
beautiful thinking stronger
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.
athlete thinking two
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.
daily-mail asylums criminals
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
life-is whole-life whole
My whole life is my work.
people decision
I'm really interested in people's decisions.