Author: 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.

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

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

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

- Jonathan Coe

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.

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

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

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

- Jonathan Coe

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.

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

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