Top 87 Quotes by Jim Crace

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

I was brought up in a flat in North London - virtually the last building in London, because north of us was countryside all the way to the coast, and south of us was non-stop London for 20 miles.

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 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'm a very secretive person.

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

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

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

Lots of people hate my stuff.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.