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Novel Quotes by Jonathan Coe
- I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let…
- 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…
- But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over…
- You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
- It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
- 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…
- It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel…
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