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
sex betrayal men
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.
father men age
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...
writing careers bitterness
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.
stories left
These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.
crushed dread
...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
space hug birth
There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
dancing asking novelists
To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
missing-someone missing missing-her
There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.
dickens likely neither whom
I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.
entitled list
I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.
future
I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.
essential prize relationship
The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.
actual emotional finished happier life parts responses succeeded
All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.