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" If I can't write it would be as if I died. "
Would
Write
Died
" 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. "
Decisions
Life
Push
" 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. "
Start
Research
Go
" I'm a much better writer for being a father. "
Much
Being
Better
" I'm not happy with just repeating myself. "
Myself
Repeating
Just
" I'm really interested in people's decisions. "
People
Really
Decisions
" I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school. "
Lot
Guy
Common
" I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy. "
Think
Tragedy
Always
" I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. "
Think
Motto
Death
" It'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. "
Hard
Small
Sometimes
" My whole life is my work. "
Life
Whole
Work
" 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. "
You
Always
Story
" The Daily Mail can't say 'asylum-seeker' without saying 'foreign criminal' in the same sentence. I'm sure it's practically editorial policy. "
Without
Saying
Daily
" 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 brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions. "
Anger
Know
Love
" There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two. "
People
Say
Difference
" This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married. "
Like
Lovers
Thing
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