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.

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

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

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

All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.

Jim Crace

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.

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.

Jim Crace

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

Jim Crace

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page.

Jim Crace

There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.

Jim Crace

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese.

Jim Crace

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Jim Crace

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