Jim Crace Quotes

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

I'm not the kind of guy who says 'wow' a lot.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

The thing is, you don't want to overact or be full of yourself.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I don't like flashy things.

I don't know what people expect me to be like, but I'm very down-to-earth and not at all full of myself.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

I'm never a flashy type of person.

I'm understated in my approach.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things.

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.