Great Writing Quotes by Author Chris Cleave

We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished.

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.”

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.

I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions…

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 brutalized and became brutal? I’m interested in the exceptions.

I’m a much better writer for being a father.

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.

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.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive.

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

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My name is Rob Bignell. I’m an affordable, professional editor who runs Inventing Reality Editing Service, which meets the manuscript needs of writers both new and published. I also offer a variety of self-publishing services. During the past 15 years, I’ve helped more than 400 novelists and nonfiction authors obtain their publishing dreams at reasonable prices. I’m also the author of the Storytelling 101 writing guidebooks, four nonfiction hiking guidebook series, and the literary novel Windmill. Several of my short stories in the literary and science fiction genres also have been published.

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