Jim Crace to Write One Final Novel
Jim Crace is about to publish a politically-oriented novel with what sounds like some science fiction elements, All That Follows , then write one more and be done with the whole novel-writing gig, he tells the Independent ( via ) : "Writing careers are short. ... For every 100 writers, 99 never get published. Of those who do, only one in every hundred gets a career out of it, so I count myself as immensely privileged. I will have written 12 novels when I finish this next book and it's enough. I'm going to stop. Too often bitterness is the end product of a writing career. I keep seeing writers who have grown bitter. And I know that I am just as likely to turn bitter as anyone else. So it's self-preservation." Most writers would say that they are driven to write and know no other way to fill their time or make sense of the world. Crace is amused by their presumption. "My belief is that I will be quite happy not writing. JD ...