Jim Crace

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

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

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.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.