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.


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I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.
DAVID ALLAN COE
Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.
DAVID ALLAN COE
Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.
DAVID ALLAN COE
I can't speak in too much detail about a book or story I'm working on because I find that it...
DAVID B. COE
I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thin...
DAVID B. COE
The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa...
JONATHAN HICKMAN
I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sur...
JONATHAN KRISEL
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
JONATHAN WINTERS
I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die.
JONATHAN ROSS
These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It&#...
JONATHAN KELLERMAN
I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary.
JONATHAN ANDERSON
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Bo...
JONATHAN TUCKER
I reassure all Nigerians and the international community of our firm commitment to free, fair and cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
All Nigerians of voting age are free to vote based on their convictions. It is our duty to defend an...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
One thing that I know and I feel Nigerians will celebrate is continuity and peace.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to refocus Nigeria to make sure that basic infrastructure is provided. The environment is cr...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
I've always affirmed, nobody's ambition is worth the blood of any Nigerian.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five m...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reve...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We will bring justice to the savage terrorists known as Boko Haram. They will be defeated.
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
We want to lead a country where people will be less greedy. Where people will know that the commonwe...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the eg...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
My brothers and sisters, we are all winners. In this context there is no victor and no vanquished. W...
GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When I started caregiving, I was not on very firm ground. My first marriage had dissolved. I was wor...
JONATHAN EVISON
One person's car is another person's scenery.
JONATHAN IVE
I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played t...
JONATHAN FRID
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be ...
JONATHAN SACKS
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers...
JONATHAN MABERRY
My dad started taking me to Winnipeg games when I was 3 or 4. As a kid, I loved Wayne Gretzky, and I...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I think whenever anyone asked me why I wanted to be a hockey player, that's where it all started...
JONATHAN TOEWS
I'd love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.
JONATHAN POWELL
In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.
JONATHAN LETHEM
Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? U...
JONATHAN SACKS
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals ...
JONATHAN SACKS
If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphi...
JONATHAN KOZOL
I never set out to intentionally hurt any player and never enticed any teammate to intentionally hur...
JONATHAN VILMA
The Futurists believed in the machine, in making a great big fuss, in being young. For a brief momen...
JONATHAN GALASSI
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT
During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE
I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
JONATHAN LEVINE