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Jonathan Coe has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between…
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to…
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context…
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and…
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've…
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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated…
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she…
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It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books.…
— Nicolas Cage
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I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
— Michael Caine
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston Churchill
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As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people…
— Ed Bradley
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and…
— Winston Churchill
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When I wake up in the morning and I turn that film on, it's like reading a book and it's exciting. I…
— Les Miles
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The books that matter to me...are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.
— Sven Birkerts
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I'm actually a hardcore otaku who likes maids more than having three meals a day. And I only read books related to…
— Hiro Fujiwara
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I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
— Jeff B. Davis
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I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.
— Eva Mendes
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