My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn't already do it -… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The world's most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn't let us win at Monopoly... he wouldn't cut any slack for his children. My… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night. He was… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn't much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I'd… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
All I care about is that people who like me think I'm funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable!… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
