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Jim Crace Quotes

English - Writer | March 1, 1946 -

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.

Makeup Book Remember Will Planet

I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

Good Atheist Old North

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Wise Person Narrative Ancient

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Relationship Guilt Special Warmth

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!

Me Writing Selfish Thinking Page

I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

Hate Long You Big Got Stuff

I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

True Shape Things Like Shaped

Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

Space House Inside Strengths Without

For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.

World Seem Greatest Length Arm Them

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

Smart Tired People Book Reading You

When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

You Listen Write Box Going Your

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Feel Political Narrative I Feel

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