"I think it's also the case that I'm……" — Jonathan Coe
"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"
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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe
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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…
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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…
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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…
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in…
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other…
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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…
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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and…
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their…
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again…
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