Jonathan Coe Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. August 19, 1961
Birthday: August 19
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.
source: Jonathan Coe (2001). “The rotters' club”
topic: People, Tea, Kitchen, Practical Joke, Denouement, Cups Of Tea, Important Moments
