Jim Crace Quotes

• There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

  Jim Crace

  Missing Someone, Missing, Missing Her

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• There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.

  Jim Crace

  Space, Hug, Birth

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• To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

  Jim Crace

  Dancing, Novelists, Asking

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• ...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.

  Jim Crace

  Crushed, Dread

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• Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.

  Jim Crace

  Pregnancy, Secret

  Jim Crace (2013). “Harvest”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

  Jim Crace

  Stories, Left

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• Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.

  Jim Crace

  Editors, Trying, Curls

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• Retiring from writing is not to retire from life, but retiring from writing is to avoid the inevitable bitterness which a writing career is bound to deliver as its end product, in almost every case.

  Jim Crace

  Writing, Careers, Bitterness

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• My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

  Jim Crace

  Father, Men, Age

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• I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.

  Jim Crace

  Sex, Betrayal, Men

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