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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."

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"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."

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"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
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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."
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"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."
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"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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"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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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
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"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
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