I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. Jim Crace disengageengagejournalist Change image and share on social
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands. Jim Crace campaigndecisionenable share on social
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. Jim Crace baritonesingsoprano Change image and share on social
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 avoidbindbitterness Change image and share on social
I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish! Jim Crace audiencebeautifullydeeply share on social
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone. Jim Crace autobiographicalbookconstituency Change image and share on social
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. Jim Crace arthriticbeneathbough Change image and share on social
I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist. Jim Crace atheistgoodkorean Change image and share on social
