“I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and i…” — Chris Cleave

The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy.

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

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.

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.