I 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 CleaveI could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
Chris CleaveI do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.
Chris CleaveI 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.
Chris CleaveI was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.
Chris Cleave