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.
Chris CleaveI think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.
Chris CleaveIt'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