Top 87 Quotes by Jim Crace

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

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy.

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.