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25 quotes by Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe At Humber Mouth Festival on 19 June 2006 Born (1961-08-19) 19 August 1961 (age 53) Bromsgrove, England, UK Occupation Novelist Nationality British Period 1987–present Genre Satire Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up!...
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

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

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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

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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... →

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

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

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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over... →

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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... →

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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... →

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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting... →

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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?

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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.

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

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