"The biggest markets for my books outside the……" — Jonathan Coe
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe
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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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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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