5 Quotes & Sayings By Jim Crace

Jim Crace is a Scottish writer, born on 3 December 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. He won the Whitbread Prize in 1983 for his novel Harvest. His work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.

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There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her. Jim Crace
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These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared. Jim Crace
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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
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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. Jim Crace