“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.”

English novelist, playwright and short story writer

Jim Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Born in Hertfordshire, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. He has 89 quotes on the site. Crace’s fiction has reached readers far beyond Britain, with his novels translated into 28 languages, including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew. He has also lectured at the University of Texas at Austin, and his work is known through novels, plays and short stories alike.