"But you can try to read books at……" — Jonathan Coe

"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."

— Jonathan Coe

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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe has 35 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to…
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became…
But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short…
But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in…
Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other…
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the…
I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and…
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their…
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again…

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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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