Jonathan Coe

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

— Jonathan Coe

#had #happy #happy childhood #i #people

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

— Jonathan Coe

#i #nonfiction #problem #talent #well

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

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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? ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#beings #each #how #human #human beings

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

#books #i #into #keeping #novels

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

#accidental #always #attempting #choices #context

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#entitled #look #politics

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

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

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

#bit #britain #contemporary #endlessly #fascinating

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

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