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Jonathan Coe Quotes
Page 2 of 2Jonathan Coe
August 19, 1961 -
Nationality: English
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: English Novelist
|  I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. | | It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. | | But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. | | I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it. | | 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. |
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