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My whole life is my work.
Our stories are the tellers of us.
It was hard not to be full of hope
And thus love makes fools of us all.
I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
If I can't write it would be as if I died.
I'm really interested in people's decisions.
I'm a much better writer for being a father.
I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.
To be well in your mind you have first to be free.
I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.
Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.
This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.
However long the moon disappears, someday it must shine again.
Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.
At some point you just have to turn around and face your life head on.
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.
So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive
Things that we have to really dare ourselves to do come quite naturally to others.
Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.
My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.
I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.
Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.
The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.
That is the trouble with happiness-all of it is built on top of something that men want.
If your face is swollen from the severe beatings of life, smile and pretend to be a fat man.
It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.
People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.
Something I am now convinced of, after researching Everyone Brave, is that none of us is born courageous in all respects.
Sometimes we don't notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles - is as unique as our fingerprints.
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn't the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn't deserve my own pity.
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.
We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.
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.