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About Jim Crace
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.
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- “I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.”Jim Crace
- “I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.”Jim Crace
- “Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stand…”Jim Crace
- “The celebrity sense of writers is something which is very tempting... But the enthusiasm comes from the fact…”Jim Crace
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- “The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.”Kate Atkinson
- “For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too. For a bit longe…”Ellen Hopkins
- “There are many talented and worthy writers engaging horror in new, imaginative, and yes, terrifying ways.”Paul G. Tremblay
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Books by Jim Crace
The pesthouse
2008
The gift of stones
1996
Arcadia
1992
All that follows
2010
Quarantine
1999