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

 

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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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

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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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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything I'd attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasn't up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished. -Jonathan Coe
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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.

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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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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. -Jonathan Coe
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My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

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