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Letter "J" » Jonathan Coe Quotes
«Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«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.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.»
Author: 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!»
Author: 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.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«The fact that it was a TV sitcom rather than a literary novel is neither here nor there, as far as I'm concerned.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«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.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«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.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
«Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.»
Author: Jonathan Coe
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