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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
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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.
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But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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