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" For 'The Gift of Stones,' I spent an afternoon chasing a flock of Canadian geese. "
Jim Crace
Geese
Afternoon
Chasing
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" I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle. "
Jim Crace
Spray
You
Beetle
" I know my 17-year-old self would read my bourgeois fiction, full of metaphors and rhythmic prose, with a sinking heart. "
Jim Crace
Heart
Know
Prose
" When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world. "
Jim Crace
Abandoned
Well
Book
" I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me. "
Jim Crace
You
Tell
Want
" I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist. "
Jim Crace
Being
Disengaged
Engaged
" Retiring from writing is not to retire from life. "
Jim Crace
Retire
Writing
Retiring
" 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 up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day. "
Jim Crace
Up
Day
Stage
" Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands. "
Jim Crace
Plan
Play
Decisions
" Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever. "
Jim Crace
Will
Forever
Stories
" 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
Reason
Plants
" 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
Car
Houston
Park
" You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano. "
Jim Crace
Sing
Baritone
Soprano
" 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
Trust
You
Start
" Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book. "
Jim Crace
Me
Book
Muse
" Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors, and their toes are going to curl up. "
Jim Crace
Happiness
Pitching
Going
" 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
Health
Heart
Book
" I never think of the reader. I am curious about things; I need to find out, so off I go. "
Jim Crace
Think
Find
Curious
" 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
Tongue
Words
Young
" The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham. "
Jim Crace
World
Problems
Out
" 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
Finding
Religion
Truth
" 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
Landscape
You
Loved
" I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes. "
Jim Crace
Unwritten
In The Past
Reputation
" Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much. "
Jim Crace
Rich
Narrative
Given
" I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is. "
Jim Crace
Book
People
Reading