Quote by Jonathan Coe

I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number…

— Jonathan Coe

“The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her.…

— Jonathan Coe

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent,…

— Jonathan Coe

“Yes, she would have been partial to men, perhaps she might even have confined herself to one man in particular, if only she had…

— Jonathan Coe

“You didn't take part, Benjamin?" Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat. "My brother doesn't play games," said…

— Jonathan Coe

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

— Jonathan Coe

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

— Jonathan Coe

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

— Jonathan Coe

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

— Jonathan Coe

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher,…

— Jonathan Coe

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

— Jonathan Coe

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…

— Jonathan Coe