I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.Jonathan Coe
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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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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Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.
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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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Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.
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