I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go. Jim Crace More Quotes by Jim Crace More Quotes From Jim Crace I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. Jim Crace wordsthinkyouspray 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 alwayslandscapenaturalhistory I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart. Jim Crace knowselfheartfiction 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 goodmemarriagehealth As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep. Jim Crace lovedstoryyougiving 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 daywake-upstagenight My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes. Jim Crace wordsmanpeopleway I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. Jim Crace becamebeingengagedjournalist When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world. Jim Crace i-ammebookworld Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much. Jim Crace muchuprichnarrative The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham. Jim Crace goingproblemslikeworld You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. Jim Crace baritonesopranosingyou
