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Jim Crace Quotes

English - Writer | March 1, 1946 -

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

You Sing Soprano Baritone

I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.

Past Reputation In The Past Acquired

I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

Good Mirror World Real Dialogue Up

When I was a youngster, I was brought up in a very political background on an estate in north London.

Political London Up Estate North

English politics is so much more concerned with the proprieties than with defending dogmas.

Politics More English Concerned Than

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.

Myself Writing Short Career Never

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.

Thought Doing Journalism Important

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.

Work Good Job Writing Looking Lucky

My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.

Education Character Man People Say

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.

History Book Landscape Write Things

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Hair View Fair Being Come Christ

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own.

Work Book Want Own Still Interfere

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