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Jonathan Coe quotes about writing

English Novelist, Writer August 19, 1961

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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 to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about! 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. 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 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
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
Jonathan Coe quote: "It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very..."
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe quote: "As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact..."
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe quote: "You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact..."
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe quote: "Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one..."
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. Jonathan Coe

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