Top 87 Quotes by Jim Crace

Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

Retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product in almost every case.

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

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 an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

I've never scared anybody in my life.

I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.

I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.