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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

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When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.

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I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

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As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

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I've been very lucky with prizes. But the thing about prizes is that, when you talk about a prize-winning author, you can be talking about one that is well-regarded but doesn't sell any books.

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I know the money is important, but, actually, the validation of your career that prizes give is what you really want. But the money is fabulous, too.

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Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 1st, 1946

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