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

- Jim Crace

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

- Jim Crace

I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a co…

- Jim Crace

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 s…

- Jim Crace

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

- Jim Crace

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 …

- Jim Crace

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

- Jim Crace

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

- Jim Crace

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

- Jim Crace