Johnson Quote by Jonathan Coe Download Open image “The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.” — Jonathan Coe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Johnson Melancholy Personality Sides Tunes
I think my cheerfulness keeps my writing from sinking into the depths of melancholy, while the darker side keeps in check any literary silliness… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
All my work shares a kind of balance between black comedy and sad and despairing melancholy. — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
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… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Books afford the surest relief in the most melancholy moments. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. — Chantal Kreviazuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The upshot was that she lost her religion - with a vengeance - and walked out on him, taking these three daughters with her.… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Save some pity for the Misfit, fighting on with bursting heart; Not a trace of common sense, his is no common flight. Save, save… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
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