The writer I feel the most affinity with – you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they’re 18th century novels – is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he’s the guy who does it for me. Jonathan Coe Read Quote
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it. Jonathan Coe Read Quote
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 Read Quote
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you’re into politics, aren’t you? Jonathan Coe Read Quote
