--- title: "1 Tell Better Quotes By Jim Crace" description: "1 Tell Better quotes by Jim Crace. Plus more from Jim Crace and more Tell Better sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png" --- > [These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourselves-and-only-ourselves-and/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png) ## More by Jim Crace > [“On nights like this, when there is anxiety about, there is a glut of lovemaking. Then the moon is our dance master. He has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/on-nights-like-this-when-there-is-anxiety-about-there-is-a-glut-of/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/retiring-from-writing-is-not-to-retire-from-life-but-retiring-from/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“There's not a season set aside for pondering and reveries. It will not les us hesitate or rest; it does not wish us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-s-not-a-season-set-aside-for-pondering-and-reveries-it-will-not/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“I am excused, I think, for wondering if I am the only one alive this afternoon with no other living soul who wants to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-am-excused-i-think-for-wondering-if-i-am-the-only-one-alive-this/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [Try pitching a story of happiness to your editors and their toes are going to curl up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/try-pitching-a-story-of-happiness-to-your-editors-and-their-toes-are/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“Sometimes in matters of the heart words are not required. Are ill advised, in fact.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/sometimes-in-matters-of-the-heart-words-are-not-required-are-ill/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/to-ask-a-novelist-to-talk-about-his-novels-is-like-asking-somebody-to/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“I think I'd like her to turn round. I want to see her face a second time. That first time she was hardly visible.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-think-i-d-like-her-to-turn-round-i-want-to-see-her-face-a-second/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“And it seems I ought to scatter too. Perhaps at once. It's always better to turn your back on the gale than press your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/and-it-seems-i-ought-to-scatter-too-perhaps-at-once-it-s-always/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“Any hawk looking down on the orchard's cloistered square, hoping for the titbit of a beetle or a mouse, would see a patterned canopy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/any-hawk-looking-down-on-the-orchard-s-cloistered-square-hoping-for/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-is-no-remedy-for-death-or-birth-except-to-hug-the-spaces-in/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [Secrets are like pregnancies hereabouts. You can hide them for a while but then they will start screaming.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/secrets-are-like-pregnancies-hereabouts-you-can-hide-them-for-a-while/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 courageously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/i-was-captivated-by-sherrie-flick-s-meticulous-and-intelligent-study/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [“The mood has changed. It's heavier. We were liquid; now we're stones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/the-mood-has-changed-it-s-heavier-we-were-liquid-now-we-re-stones/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) > [There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/there-s-solace-in-the-thought-that-i-will-never-finish-missing-her/) [Jim Crace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-crace/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tell-better/jim-crace/#itemlist", "name": "1 Tell Better Quotes By Jim Crace", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jim Crace" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-crace/these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourselves-and-only-ourselves-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.” — Jim Crace", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tell-better/jim-crace/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tell-better/jim-crace/", "name": "Tell Better Quotes by Jim Crace", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tell-better/jim-crace/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/jim-crace-28250_stories_these-are-the-stories-that-we-tell-ourse_2496632.png" }, "description": "1 Tell Better quotes by Jim Crace. 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