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

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

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

Lots of people hate my stuff. — Jim Crace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I should have been kinder when I was younger. — Jim Crace

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. — Jim Crace

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

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

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

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

I've never finished anything by Dickens. — Jim Crace

I'm a very secretive person. — Jim Crace

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