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Books Quotes by Jonathan Coe
- 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…
- 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 into…
- 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…
- My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I…
- But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
- The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels…
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