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."

"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."

Jonathan Coe, English Novelist

Johnson, Biography, Personality, Writing

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"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."

"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

"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."

Books

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

Talent

"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."

Johnson

"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."

Politics

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

Writing

"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

"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."

Time

"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."

Life

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

Politics

"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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"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."

Author Name

Personal Development

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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."

Books

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

Talent

"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."

Johnson

"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."

Politics

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

Writing

"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

"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."

Time

"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."

Life

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

Politics

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

Writing