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Writing 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…
- As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
- 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…
- 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.
- As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was…
- Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
- I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle…
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