3 Quotes & Sayings By Chris Ayres

Chris Ayres (pronounced Ayr-Ziss) is the author of eleven published novels and more than four dozen short stories. He was born in Suffolk, England in 1957 and now lives with his wife in the United States. His work has appeared in over three dozen contests and publications worldwide and has been translated into eight languages. He is an active member of various writing groups and is currently working on his twelfth novel.

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The movies, I thought, have got the soundtrack to war all wrong. War isn't rock 'n' roll. It's got nothing to do with Jimi Hendrix or Richard Wagner. War is nursery rhymes and early Madonna tracks. War is the music from your childhood. Because war, when it's not making you kill or be killed, turns you into an infant. For the past eight days, I'd been living like a five-year-old – a nonexistence of daytime naps, mushy food, and lavatory breaks. My adult life was back in Los Angeles with my dirty dishes and credit card bills. Chris Ayres
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We had all opted to take City's financial reporting course work, which, in theory, meant we wanted to write about stock prices and corporate takeovers. That, of course, was a joke. No one still in their twenties, and broke, goes into journalism to write about money–a subject in which they still have zero practical experience. Chris Ayres