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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) →Other sayings from Jim Crace
- “I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you real…”Jim Crace
- “I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake…”Jim Crace
- “If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and…”Jim Crace
- “Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur experti…”Jim Crace
Writing: more sayings
- “Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.”Melissa McCarthy
- “Writing so that I can act became a way of having not more control over my future but not having to wait for p…”Brit Marling
- “Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.”Harlan Ellison
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Books by Jim Crace
The pesthouse
2008
The gift of stones
1996
Arcadia
1992
All that follows
2010
Quarantine
1999