“Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.” — Jonathan Coe Quote

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

No talent lies in my dancing.

I have no talent. I have nothing to offer.

Whenever you're on a reality show, you're the scum of the earth. You have no talent, you're a nothing, and you deserve nothing.

People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.