Top 87 Quotes by Jim Crace

Lots of people hate my stuff.

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

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

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books.

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'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.