All the uncontrollable and unpredictable parts of my life - from the actual creation to my emotional responses to the finished book - I've succeeded in banishing to the office. And I think I'm happier for it.
From Jim Crace
Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.
I don't have a constituency, and I'm not autobiographical in any way. I write these deeply moral books in a country which would prefer irony to anything with a moral tone.
I've never scared anybody in my life.
I'm a very secretive person.
I have tested my nerve by reaching a little too closely toward a lengthy alligator on the Gulf Coast and a saucer-sized tarantula in a Houston car park.
I have, I must admit, despised the English countryside for much of my life - despised it and avoided it for its want of danger and adventure.
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
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