"Some people don't realize that a straight 'No'……" — Jonathan Coe

"Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world."

— Jonathan Coe

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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…
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 trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. — Ruth Benedict
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question. — Yogi Berra
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