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Lots of people hate my stuff.

~Jim Crace

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Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscape, and I have an elegiac tone in most of my books.

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While we're having all these debates about how the book is being destroyed by the Kindle, we have to remember that narrative will not be affected at all because it's part of our makeup as a creature on this planet.

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I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.

~Jim Crace

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I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

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The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

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I'm not thinking when I'm writing, 'How's this going to read?' Or, 'What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?' The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it's deeply satisfying. It's selfish!

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I've got a big, long list of stuff you're entitled to hate about my books.

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I like shaped things. I like shape in things, and I do overshape things, it's true.

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Inside, Penlee House is without pretension. It is a space that knows its limitations and its strengths - and makes the most of them.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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