I Think It's Also The Case That I'm Not As Widely Travelled, Or As Well-educated In History, As Most Of The Other Novelists I Meet: So I Have To Write About My Own Country, At The Present Time, Because It's More Or Less All I Know About! - SearchQuotes

About
Terms
Privacy
Sitemap

Get in Touch
Advertise
Removal Request
Subscribe
Contact Us

Social
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Pinterest

Close

Submit Quote

Latest Quotes
Browse our latest quotes

Topic List
Categorized list of quote topics

Famous Authors
Alphabetical list of influential authors

Picture Quotes
Custom and user added quotes with pictures

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

Jonathan Coe

4 Likes

4 Comments

RELATED QUOTES

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.

0 Likes

Sponsored Links

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.

2 Likes

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.

1 Likes

Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

0 Likes

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

2 Likes

Sponsored Links

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

0 Likes

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

0 Likes

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.

0 Likes

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.

0 Likes

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

0 Likes

Sponsored Links

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.

0 Likes

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

0 Likes

TRENDING

ABOUT

Terms
Privacy Policy
Removal Request
Sitemap
Contact Us

OUR GOAL

Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life.

© 2024 SearchQuotes™