The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies – which is part guilt and part warmth – and the Booker Prize isn’t an essential part of that, but it is part of that. Jim Crace Read Quote
I’m not thinking when I’m writing, ‘How’s this going to read?’ Or, ‘What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?’ The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it’s deeply satisfying. It’s selfish! Jim Crace Read Quote
I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it’s true. Jim Crace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
For all the splendours of the world’s greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm’s length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in. Jim Crace Read Quote
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. Jim Crace Read Quote
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length. Jim Crace Read Quote
