I’m very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I’m much less driven than they are. I don’t wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don’t suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day. Jim Crace Read Quote
Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous. Jim Crace Read Quote
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. Jim Crace Read Quote
I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart. Jim Crace Read Quote
While we’re having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it’s part of our makeup as a creature on this planet. Jim Crace Read Quote
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. Jim Crace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
