I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her.… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent,… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“You didn't take part, Benjamin?" Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat. "My brother doesn't play games," said… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher,… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
