Jonathan Coe Citas

• I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.

  Jonathan Coe

  Real, Fall, Rain

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• Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.

  Jonathan Coe

  Personas, Respuestas, Mundo

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• Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

  Jonathan Coe

  Objectivity, Males, Subjectivity

  "Co-Creation: From the Outside Looking In" by Ken Carbone, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2016.

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• Decimos: "¿Quedamos para tomar una copa?", como si beber fuera el objetivo principal de la cita, y la cuestión de la compañía sólo incidental, somos tan tímidos a la hora de admitir que nos necesitamos unos a otros.[...]Decimos: "¿Te apetece venir a tomar un café?", como si fuera menos aterrador reconocer que dependemos en gran medida de bebidas ligeramente estimulantes, que reconocer que dependemos en absoluto de la compañía de otras personas.

  Jonathan Coe

  Drinking, Coffee, People

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

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Childhood, Unlucky

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• Ah, bueno, no tengo talento para la no ficción, ese es mi problema.

  Jonathan Coe

  Fiction And Nonfiction, Talent, Problem

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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?

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Humans, Human Beings

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• For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

  Jonathan Coe

  Wife, Feelings, Sides

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• A veces siento que estoy destinado a estar siempre fuera de escena cuando ocurre la acción principal. Que Dios me ha convertido en víctima de una broma cósmica, asignándome poco más que un papel secundario en mi propia vida. O a veces siento que mi papel consiste simplemente en ser espectador de las historias de los demás, y que siempre me alejo en el momento más importante, yendo a la cocina a preparar una taza de té justo cuando se desarrolla el desenlace.

  Jonathan Coe

  People, Kitchen, Tea

  Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”

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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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Real, Knowing, Cynical

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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

  Ideas, Space, Narrative

  "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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• The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mistake, Eye, Way To Live

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• Te volverías loco si empezaras a especular sobre el impacto que podría tener tu novela mientras aún la estás escribiendo.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Impact, Mad

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• The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Country, Book, Two

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• A medida que los libros se hacían más grandes y ambiciosos, las situaciones en cuestión se convertían a veces en situaciones políticas, por lo que se hizo necesario empezar a pintar el trasfondo social a una escala que con el tiempo llegó a ser panorámica.

  Jonathan Coe

  Book, Political, Ambitious

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• Well, I like the rain before it falls.

  Jonathan Coe

  Rain, Fall, Wells

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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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Political, Intimate

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• As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.

  Jonathan Coe

  Writing, Wife, Littles

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• Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.

  Jonathan Coe

  Labels, Feels, Accurate

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• El lado más melancólico de mi personalidad literaria está muy en sintonía con la de BS Johnson.

  Jonathan Coe

  Personality, Sides, Tunes

  "Likely lads' return" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2004.

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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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Regret, Book, Successful

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• No tenía ninguna idea de la reputación que What a Carve Up! podría adquirir - en ese momento ni siquiera tenía un editor, así que mi principal preocupación era si iba a ver la luz del día o no.

  Jonathan Coe

  Light, Worry, Might

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• But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

  Jonathan Coe

  Choices, Individual, Attempting

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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.

  Jonathan Coe

  Libro, Escritura, Historias

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• Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and other times, maybe it wouldn't.

  Jonathan Coe

  Littles, Britain, Contemporary

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