Jonathan Coe Quotes

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers. - Jonathan Coe

So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in history or in British culture or whatever. - Jonathan Coe

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore. - Jonathan Coe

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it. - Jonathan Coe

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. - 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. - Jonathan Coe

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

I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is like wading through quicksand compared to writing fiction. - Jonathan Coe

I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone. - Jonathan Coe

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. - Jonathan Coe

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