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Jim Crace quotes: When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

Jim Crace quotes: You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

Jim Crace quotes: I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

Jim Crace quotes: Lots of people hate my stuff.

Lots of people hate my stuff.

Jim Crace quotes: I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go.

Jim Crace quotes: I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

Jim Crace quotes: I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

Jim Crace quotes: Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

Jim Crace quotes: I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

Jim Crace quotes: Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Jim Crace quotes: Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

Jim Crace quotes: There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Jim Crace quotes: We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

Jim Crace quotes: The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Jim Crace quotes: I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

Jim Crace quotes: There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

Jim Crace quotes: I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

Jim Crace quotes: Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Jim Crace quotes: I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

Jim Crace quotes: I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

Jim Crace quotes: And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your face against it.

Jim Crace quotes: I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

Jim Crace quotes: I should have been kinder when I was younger.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

Jim Crace quotes: You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

Jim Crace quotes: Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

Jim Crace quotes: Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.

Jim Crace quotes: The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

Jim Crace quotes: English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Jim Crace quotes: Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

Jim Crace quotes: I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.

Jim Crace quotes: I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

Jim Crace quotes: I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Jim Crace quotes: I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jim Crace quotes: Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Jim Crace quotes: Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Jim Crace quotes: When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

Jim Crace quotes: I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Jim Crace quotes: I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

Jim Crace quotes: These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

Jim Crace quotes: As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

Jim Crace quotes: Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

Jim Crace quotes: To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

Jim Crace quotes: The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.

Jim Crace quotes: There is no remedy for deathor birthexcept to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

There is no remedy for death
or birth
except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

Jim Crace quotes: Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

Jim Crace quotes: The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Jim Crace quotes: Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life.

Jim Crace quotes: Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

Jim Crace quotes: I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace quotes: For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

Jim Crace quotes: I've never scared anybody in my life.

I've never scared anybody in my life.

Jim Crace quotes: I've never finished anything by Dickens.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Jim Crace quotes: I'm a very secretive person.

I'm a very secretive person.

Jim Crace quotes: Crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

Crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.