But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.
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Well, mainly it's because I'm not a writer who's comfortable with writing about periods that I can't remember firsthand.Jonathan Coe
Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, she's probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we don't see her much on the political landscape in this country, she's kind of disappeared and she doesn't speak out much anymore.
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
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I'm shy of comparisons to Dickens because he's one of the absolute greats and it's silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone.
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I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up might acquire - at the time I didn't even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.
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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.
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