Chris Cleave — British Writer born on December 29, 1973,

Chris Cleave is a British writer and journalist... (wikipedia)

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.
There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
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.
I'm not happy with just repeating myself.
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.