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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.
More from Jim Crace (89 quotes) →Keep reading Jim Crace
- “I don't have any sense of an audience when I'm writing. I don't consider the audience. Because all I'm intere…”Jim Crace
- “Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.”Jim Crace
- “I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.”Jim Crace
- “I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning aut…”Jim Crace
Explore Anger
- “Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its tar…”David Weber
- “I'm amazed by how angry people get about new art, particularly new sculptures in their town. The people who h…”Sean Lock
- “To me, little Mike Wazowski is one of the best characters I ever got to play because he was funny. He was out…”Billy Crystal
Reading: more sayings
- “My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they w…”Rey Mysterio
- “We need good reading programs, and we need equity in schools.”Jill Biden
- “Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point…”Max Barry
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Books by Jim Crace
The pesthouse
2008
The gift of stones
1996
Arcadia
1992
All that follows
2010
Quarantine
1999