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Jonathan Coe Quotes

English - Novelist | August 19, 1961 -

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

Childhood Happy People Unlucky Who

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.

Know Relationships Personal Outside

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic.

Painting Start Political Sometimes

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

Writing Impact You Mad Go Your

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Politics Look Entitled Continuity

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

Writing Always One Thing Wanted Case

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

Personality More Side Melancholy

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

Feel Comfortable Never Labels Them

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Woman Control Choices Always Over

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

Me Small Political You Become Write

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

Politics Writing Start You Human

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!

History Time Think Present Meet

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