Jonathan Coe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.”

“Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.”

“The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.”

“They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.”

“Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.”

“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.”

“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.”