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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Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.Jonathan Coe
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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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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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!
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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
I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
Jonathan Coe
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