Jonathan Coe Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

  Regret, Book, Successful

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• 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

  Writing, Wife, Littles

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• 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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Littles, Britain, Contemporary

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Stories

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

  Jonathan Coe

  Personality, Sides, Tunes

  "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Talent, Complicated

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

  Jonathan Coe

  Labels, Feels, Accurate

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