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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

- Jonathan Coe
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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.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely.

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.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.

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But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.