Jim Crace
Jim Crace
James "Jim" Craceis an award-winning English writer. His novels include Quarantine, which was judged Whitbread Novel of 1998, and Harvest, which won the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 March 1946
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There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
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While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.
love
We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.
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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
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To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
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There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.
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There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
stories left
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
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Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but 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.
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My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all...
pregnancy secret
Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.
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I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.
crushed dread
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
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Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.