Jonathan Coe
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It seems impossible at the beginning, but once y... RICH COHEN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. JOSEPH WAMBAUGH KURT VONNEGUT His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA LAINI TAYLOR MORDECAI RICHLER Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be... SANDRA K. COOK To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous... SALLY SCHNEIDER If you have a question, ask. How do you ask? Say it or write it SOTONYE ANGA Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, re... PATRICK CARMAN BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is a new venture. (A judge says) even though it looks like a slot machine and acts like a slot ... BRIAN MCGILL WILLIAM GIBSON LEMONY SNICKET KAZUO ISHIGURO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO . . .You are preparing to make it possible to live in the writer’s dream, by learning to market yo... TERRY KENNEDY KATHI APPELT I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark. ZE FRANK I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready ... JONATHAN COE Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction ... BARBARA BRADFORD BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work ... JESMYN WARD I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly writte... STANLEY ELKIN It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN One Bagatelle, and I’ll raise you a novel,” Megan had tweeted back.L.L. BARKAT LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, '... GEOFF DYER RICHARD CARLSON There's a point at which writing a book, or a long article, begins to feel like mental labor, an... ALEXANDRA FULLER ALEKSANDAR HEMON Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry. DAMON LINDELOF ANNIE DILLARD BRYAN BURROUGH Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the pape... BUDDY EBSEN Anybody can write a book. But writing it well and making it sell - that's the hard part. JAY TAYLOR ALAN FURST TEJU COLE RICHARD PRICE JOHN IRVING ANNE LAMOTT See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things... GORDON ATKINSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH BRUCE STERLING The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' be... ANDREW CARROLL DEYTH BANGER JULIAN BARNES Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... GRAHAM GREENE AVI JOHN GREEN JOAN DIDION PAUL DI FILIPPO You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing. ASHLEY BROOKE ROBBINS JANE SMILEY After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but... MARGUERITE YOUNG DEYTH BANGER Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS We're trying to get kids to look at writing and what that creative writer has to do. We want to get ... FRAN JOHNSON RICHARD YATES EMINEM I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie... JONATHAN COE It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other cou... JONATHAN COE They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. JONATHAN COE Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to b... JONATHAN COE Dickens, obviously, is a great hero. JONATHAN COE I don't know, I don't really have a view about what my contemporaries are doing, except that I enjoy... JONATHAN COE I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. JONATHAN COE I have to constantly rein in my nostalgia for the 1970s, in case it takes me over and I become one o... JONATHAN COE But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics. JONATHAN COE The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. JONATHAN COE As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off... JONATHAN COE I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and mor... JONATHAN COE But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s... JONATHAN COE I don't mind summer rain. In fact I like it. It's my favourite sort.' 'Your favourite sort of rain?'... JONATHAN COE Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more ab... JONATHAN COE But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. JONATHAN COE I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood. JONATHAN COE I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and s... JONATHAN COE As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into p... JONATHAN COE My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my mo... JONATHAN COE So it was primarily a desire to write about that period in one's life rather than that period in his... JONATHAN COE Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was. JONATHAN COE Everybody is excited by his experience and enthusiasm. Everybody is impressed. JONATHAN COE I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with thei... JONATHAN COE I don't know if England lags behind the States or is ahead of the States. We've finished with the '7... JONATHAN COE Someone emailed me and said The Closed Circle reminded them of reading Trollope. JONATHAN COE Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. JONATHAN COE Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't... JONATHAN COE The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countrie... JONATHAN COE It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countri... JONATHAN COE Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. JONATHAN COE It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to be... JONATHAN COE You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were sti... JONATHAN COE The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I thi... JONATHAN COE I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready ... JONATHAN COE I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much a... JONATHAN COE They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. JONATHAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE I'm going to try my best. I'm just going to come out here, get base hits and see what happens. ADAM COE I just try to get base hits. If they go over the fence, that's fine. ADAM COE It helps a lot when those guys are out there pitching well. If we can get then a couple of runs, tha... ADAM COE We were trying to make some noise. I told them that noise would get him rattled. ADAM COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE You can tell by watching him that he's a lot more seasoned and has a lot more poise than the other g... CHARLIE COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE It was nice to have him come in. He's got some junk he can get some guys going with. ZACH COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE SEBASTIAN COE I stand to lose everything I have worked a lifetime for. 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Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t... 
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. 
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half... 
I don't have a deep link with England like, say, Jonathan Coe or Hanif Kureishi might demonstrat... 
It is a lie. 
If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing 
I write both fiction and nonfiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes lat... 
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... 
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made... 
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it 
Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present... 
I am what I have ever read 
Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true 
When I write nonfiction, it's always absolutely true. There will be no moment in my nonfiction w... 
We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kid... 
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scen... 
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw... 
I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16.... 
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, lik... 
I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. An... 
I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &... 
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction ... 
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. 
In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no ... 
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many sto... 
There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book.... 
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great... 
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... 
If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11;... 
So, you see, it's a real chore for me to write a book review because it's like a contest. It's like ... 
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days. 
Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... 
I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it. 
Time is a teacher which in the end it kills all it's students. (Synchronicity 2015 Film) 
I briefly considered writing it as a non-fiction book but the fact of the matter is that George left... 
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that n... 
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14... 
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels -... 
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.... 
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but ... 
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w... 
When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci... 
I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... 
That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. 
I don't think I am a workaholic. I prefer to keep busy. It is better than the alternative. 
Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport v... 
Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to tr... 
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomina... 
I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. 
Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own. 
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it. 
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo... 
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#... 
One person's car is another person's scenery. 
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ... 
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers... 
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I... 
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started... 
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U... 
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi... 
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. 