I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
GILES CORENThe way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
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You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
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The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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