You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.Jonathan Coe
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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