Jim Crace Quotes

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Sometimes when you film, you can be in a bit of a bubble, and then suddenly when you finish filming, it's taken out of your hands - it's not yours anymore, and we all love it so much that we feel quite protective of it.

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

I sleep till one, and I'm always surprised when someone in blue rinse on a talk show says, 'You're a genius, Mr. Newley, you do so many things.' Tony Newley never realized his potential, did the things he should have done.

Unless I really loved it and felt really passionate about it, I would just kind of abort the song and start a new one.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Men should never marry their muse. It ruins the illusion.

Melville locked himself away in his room for months while working on 'Moby Dick.' If I ever decide to write a novel, I hope someone will take pity on me and take me out to dinner instead.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.