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Jim Crace
Jim Crace
English Writer
Born: Mar 1, 1946
Being Book Books Me People You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
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
Writing Bitterness Inevitable Every Case Deliver Almost Bound Retiring End End Product Which Product Avoid Career
I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me. Jim Crace
Me You Lie Yesterday Tell Entertain Exaggerate About Adore Accurately Want Happened
Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play. Jim Crace
School Everyone Had Put Almost Primary Primary School Almost Everyone Towels Heads Shepherds Been Nativity Play Britain
For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. Jim Crace
Gift Chasing Spent Geese Canadian Stones Afternoon Flock
I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out. Jim Crace
Future Live Out City Being Where Want Mapped
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. Jim Crace
You Words Invent Think Spray Heard Beetle
Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books. Jim Crace
History Natural Books Obsessed Most Because Always Been Subject Walker Natural History Landscape Tone
I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage. Jim Crace
Health Good Good Health Me Heart Happy Marriage Book Matter Long Distance Ways Some No-One Between Read Because Felt Subject Subject Matter Upbringing Wants Novels Based
I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. Jim Crace
Journalist Became Disengaged Stopped Being Engaged Novelist
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world. Jim Crace
Me Book World Abandon Abandoned Writer Most Well Am Goes
Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much. Jim Crace
Rich Given Narrative Up Much
Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. Jim Crace
Life Writing Retire Retiring
You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. Jim Crace
You Soprano Sing Baritone
When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London. Jim Crace
Political Background London Brought Up Very North Estate Youngster
English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas. Jim Crace
Politics More Concerned Than Much English Defending
Writing careers are short. For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged. Jim Crace
Myself Writing Every Hundred Those Immensely Out Only Writers Count Never Privileged Get Gets Short Who Published Career Careers
I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out. Jim Crace
Thought Important Out More Journalism Liked Still Doing Been Than Fiction Certainly
After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself. Jim Crace
Work Good Writing Job Looking Own Worried Some My Own More Advances Also Deals Been Years Contract Itself Very Sitting Impulse Wanted After Which Room Lucky Thing Extent Career
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things. Jim Crace
History Natural Book Everyone Those Says Area Write Because Amateur Expertise Natural History Should Landscape Things
When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them. Jim Crace
Work Me People Drive Doubt Think Side Books Say Van No Doubt Deliver Supply Around Leaving Did Them Then Asked Publishing
I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night. Jim Crace
School Go After After-School Straight Night University
I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is. Jim Crace
Know Literary Theory
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. Jim Crace
Fruit Fear Trees Though Would Would-Be Brother Feared Always Caught Climbing Australia Imprisoned Grabbing Loved Sent Act Even
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer. Jim Crace
Writer
Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book. Jim Crace
Me Book Progress Journalist Freelance Neither Absence Features Allowed Hinder Block Nor Years Sixteen Taught Orderly Should Presence Muse
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
Life Book My Life Finished Creation Think Responses Unpredictable Emotional Uncontrollable Parts Office Happier Succeeded Actual
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