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.

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I've never finished anything by Dickens.