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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

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved. Jim Crace

Love Loved

I've never scared anybody in my life. Jim Crace

Life My Life Scared Never Anybody

I'm a very secretive person. Jim Crace

Secretive Very Person

You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. Jim Crace

You Beneath Oak Thousand Tales Survey Any Stand English

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

Time Wise Will Long Long Time Those Has-Been Trick Thousands Thousands Of Years Mischievous Part Generous Know Narrative Been Years Human Human Consciousness Helpful Consciousness Played Two

I offer detailed but mostly invented narratives about the provenance of my books. Jim Crace

Books Detailed About Invented Mostly Narratives Offer

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

Privately, I'm thrilled with what I do, but publicly, I hold it in disdain. Jim Crace

Thrilled Privately Disdain Hold Publicly

I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm interested in is the problem on the page. Jim Crace

Writing Problem Sense Consider Because Audience Any Interested Page

Lots of people hate my stuff. Jim Crace

Hate People Stuff Lots

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever. Jim Crace

Will Has-Been Telling Been Forever Stories Humankind

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

Book Remember Will Our Destroyed Kindle About Having Part Because Narrative Makeup How Affected Debates Being While Planet Creature

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

Me Selfish Writing Sometimes Thinking Pleasure Stay Percentage Gives Onto Stuff Beautifully Read Audience How Falls Itself Going Just Happily Page Satisfying Deeply Thing

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs. Jim Crace

Natural Convictions Believe Opinions Historian Rocks Rainbows Consciousness

Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration. Jim Crace

You Immigration Brazil Think Though Harvest About Seized Also Method Were Historical Modern Intentions Being Land Asking Even Novel

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