When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world. Jim Crace Read Quote
I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go. Jim Crace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jim Crace Read Quote
I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. Jim Crace Read Quote
If I talk about my father’s funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, ‘Being Dead,’ I’m not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I’m not going to tell you, and I’m certainly not going to tell my grief. Jim Crace Read Quote
