Quotes by Jonathan Coe

About Jonathan Coe:

Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources which was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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.

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.

Jonathan Coe

Take It and Like It

Jonathan Coe

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.

Jonathan Coe

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

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 was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

Jonathan Coe

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Jonathan Coe

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

Jonathan Coe

Author Bio

  • NameJonathan Coe
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist
  • BornAugust 19, 1961
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionWriter
  • AwardsJohn Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize