Top 87 Quotes by Jim Crace

About Jim Crace

These are some quotes by English author Jim Crace Writer, who was born on March 1, 1946.

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.

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.

Jim Crace

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Jim Crace

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

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

Jim Crace

The most I have to fear while hiking in Warwickshire and Worcestershire, the two historic British counties closest to my city home in Birmingham, is whether or not the mud awaiting me in the narrow lanes ahead is deep enough to foul my socks.

Jim Crace

If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.

Jim Crace

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

Jim Crace

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.

Jim Crace

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

Jim Crace

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Jim Crace

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Jim Crace

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