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If I talk about my father's funeral, as I did when I was promoting the last novel, 'Being Dead,' I'm not going to tell any lies, but there are certain things I'm not going to tell you, and I'm certainly not going to tell my grief.
- Jim Crace
#Dead
#Father
#Grief
#Talk
#Tell
As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
- Jim Crace
#Big
#Land
#Loved
#Sheep
#Story
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.
- Jim Crace
#Any
#Oak
#Stand
#Survey
#Thousand
My tongue is what I used instead of my fists because I was a small and cowardly young man. Amusing people with stories and being bizarre with words was my way of getting out of fixes.
- Jim Crace
#Man
#People
#Way
#Words
#Young Man
Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up.
- Jim Crace
#Happiness
#Pitching
#Story
#Try
#Up
Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.
- Jim Crace
#Book
#Everyone
#History
#Landscape
For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.
- Jim Crace
#Greatest
#Length
#Them
#Too
#World
I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.
- Jim Crace
#Hold
#Hysteria
#Inside
#Religion
#Truth
There is no reason why the Louvre should be your favourite gallery just because it has the grandest collections in France, any more than Kew should necessarily be a favourite garden because it has the largest assemblage of plants, or Tesco your chosen shop because it has the widest variety of canned beans.
- Jim Crace
#Just Because
#More
#Plants
#Reason
#Why
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
- Jim Crace
#Heard
#Invent
#Spray
#Think
#Words
If you read the fables, 'Beowulf,' for example, you will know something about the person who writes them, and I like that. Secondly, they will not be about individuals; they will be about community. Thirdly, they're all about moralizing. Fourthly, the way they express themselves takes its tone from the oral tradition.
- Jim Crace
#Community
#Know
#Person
#Tradition
#Way
As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.
- Jim Crace
#Believe
#Consciousness
#Opinions
#Rocks
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.
- Jim Crace
#Adventure
#Countryside
#Life
#My Life
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.
- Jim Crace
#Always
#Rest
#Start
#Trust
#Way
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.
- Jim Crace
#Alligator
#Car
#Houston
#Little
#Park
#Tested
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.
- Jim Crace
#Good
#Health
#Heart
#Long
#Marriage
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