top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Success quotes
"Things that you have remained 'sincere' to, those many things you have won. The world has to be won; only then will it let you go to moksha!"
"Success is not the final destination but the stepping stone for the next."
"Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away."
"Live the Life of Your DreamsWhen you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve."
"Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth."
"There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!"
"The only way to get what you're worth is to stand out, to exert emotional labor, to be seen as indispensable, and to produce interactions that organizations and people care deeply about."
"Always let your talent do the talking. Never your tantrums."
Explore more quotes by Jonathan Coe
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
"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."
bottom of page