Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.
Jonathan CoeAs soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
Jonathan CoeI like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
Jonathan Coe