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Jonathan Coe Quotes
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, thats my problem. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wifes income all that time, which wasnt very great. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wifes money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, youre into politics, arent you? - Jonathan Coe Quotes
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I dont write short stories because they turn into novels. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldnt. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
I became quite taken over by Johnsons personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
I dont know, I dont really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but Im not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blairs Britain, but I cant work up much affection for the culture weve created for ourselves: its too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
I think its also the case that Im not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because its more or less all I know about! - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Im one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Im shy of comparisons to Dickens because hes one of the absolute greats and its silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Its only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesnt seem to appeal very widely. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America theyve been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in ones life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
So no, Im pleased if its been influential for many readers, but at the time I didnt even know that it was going to have any readers. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I dont know whether thats a coincidence, or if theres something to be learned from it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnsons. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think theyre 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, hes the guy who does it for me. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
They were written in the early 90s when I was strapped for cash. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes
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