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Jonathan Coe

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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Donna Grant

"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"

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Donna Grant

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

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Donna Grant

"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."

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Donna Grant

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

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Donna Grant

"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."

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Donna Grant

"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."

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Donna Grant

"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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Donna Grant

"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."

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Donna Grant

"Without story books is like a person with no soul."

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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."

Books

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

Writing

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

Writing

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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."

Books

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

Writer

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

People

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Jonathan Coe
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."

Talent

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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."

Life

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Jonathan Coe
"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."

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Jonathan Coe
"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."

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