Jonathan Coe Quotes

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

Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. - 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. - Jonathan Coe

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. - Jonathan Coe

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me. - Jonathan Coe

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. - 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. - 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. - Jonathan Coe

Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. - Jonathan Coe

Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope. - Jonathan Coe

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