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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
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Author Details: Type: Novelist Quotes Category: English Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: August 19, 1961 Nationality: English Amazon: Jonathan Coe on Amazon |
Related Authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens J. R. R. Tolkien Emily Bronte Thomas Hardy E. M. Forster Michael Korda Israel Zangwill Arnold Bennett |
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Select Jonathan Coe Quotations:
But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
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. 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! Jonathan Coe 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 I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. Jonathan Coe 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 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 |
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Quote Keywords: Always, Case, Luckily, Managed, Thing, Wanted, Writing |
Dictionary Links: Always, Case, Luckily, Managed, Thing, Wanted, Writing |
All Jonathan Coe Quotations: Ah, well, I have no talent... As I said, I had no... As soon as you start writing... As the books grew bigger and... But at the same time, I... But I have always - ever since... But we are entitled to look... But you can try to read... Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place... I became quite taken over by... I have two ideas for novels... I live a perfectly happy and... I think it's also the case... I'm one of those unlucky people... It seems to me that you... It's only a drawback in the... Luckily, in my case, I have... My only regret is that I... Thatcherism has become bigger than she... The biggest markets for my books... The more melancholy side of my... The writer I feel the most... They were written in the early... Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached... You would go mad if you... |
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