Jonathan Coe Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Impact, Mad

• 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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Ideas, Two

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

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Humans, Human Beings

• 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

  Book, Writing, Stories

• It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Political, Intimate

• 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

  Writing, Wife, Littles

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