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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.

From Jim Crace

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.

From Jim Crace

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

From Jim Crace

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

From Jim Crace

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

From Jim Crace

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

From Jim Crace

When people asked me what I did, I'd say, 'I work in publishing', and when they then say, 'What side of it?', I say, 'Supply' - no doubt leaving them to think I drive the books around in a van and deliver them.

From Jim Crace

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

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I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

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I'm not that well-versed in literary theory - I don't know what it is.

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Jim Crace

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