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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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But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.

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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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Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.

~Jonathan Coe

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1961

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