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They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

English Novelist

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

English Novelist

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

English Novelist

I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy individual writers and so on.

English Novelist

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

English Novelist

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didn't even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didn't even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

English Novelist

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

Childhood English Novelist

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.

English Novelist

Dickens, obviously, is a great hero. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Dickens, obviously, is a great hero.

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything I'd attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasn't up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything I'd attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasn't up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

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 Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

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 Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.

English Novelist

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

English Novelist Politics

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever.

English Novelist

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

English Novelist

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

English Novelist

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

English Novelist

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? - Jonathan Coe Quotes

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

English Novelist

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 into novels. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

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 into novels.

English Novelist

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

English Novelist

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.

English Novelist

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

English Novelist

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

Books And Reading English Novelist

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

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

English Novelist

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.

English Novelist Ideas

A biographer has to get as emotionally close to his/her subject as possible: otherwise the writing won't come to life at all. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

A biographer has to get as emotionally close to his/her subject as possible: otherwise the writing won't come to life at all.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

English Novelist Talent

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

English Novelist

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.

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! - Jonathan Coe Quotes

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!

English Novelist History

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. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

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.

English Novelist

The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned.

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

English Novelist

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

English Novelist

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore.

I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction.

I sometimes think that we fiction writers lag behind nonfiction counterparts in adventurousness, willingness to tackle forgotten areas of history but... we get there in the end. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I sometimes think that we fiction writers lag behind nonfiction counterparts in adventurousness, willingness to tackle forgotten areas of history but... we get there in the end.

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 Quotes

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

Space

I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one of those grumpy old men who just talks about how much better life was when he was a kid. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one of those grumpy old men who just talks about how much better life was when he was a kid.

I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '70s retro chic revival, we've done the '80s retro-chic revival and on to the '90s. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '70s retro chic revival, we've done the '80s retro-chic revival and on to the '90s.

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Books And Reading English Novelist

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope.

I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone.

English Novelist

Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed.

From our perspective, the session was a success. - Jonathan Coe Quotes

From our perspective, the session was a success.

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