- Craig Davidson is known for Rust and Bone (2012), The Fight Machine (2022) and The Saturday Night Ghost Club.
- The diversity of work has given me a diversity of skills. I think of myself as a Swiss army knife. You want a novel? Okay, let me fold out my novel attachment. A story? A profile? a 200- word product pop on energy bars? Gimme a sec, I've got that attachment too.
- [on his writing career] To pay the rent, I've written everything you can think of: stories, novels, long-form non-fiction pieces, memoirish stuff, 300-word front-of-book material about wristwatches and water bottles and juicers for a variety of publications, classified ads, ad copy, fake profiles for a dating site. It's been varied. And, in the course of trying to make my living that way, I've often run short on rent money, and thus set up shop as a librarian, an ESL teacher, special-needs bus driver, newspaper and magazine editor, pharmaceutical test subject..and whatever else I could do to make ends meet.
- [on Rust and Bone (2012), the film adaptation of his book] I was mesmerised, I was extremely grateful that Jacques Audiard and his screenwriting partner Thomas Bidegain optioned it and made such a fantastic, compassionate, sensitive film. My hat's off to them, and to the incredible performances in the film.
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