But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
GILES CORENMy dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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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.
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I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a sidekick for ‘The F Word’, then he suggested me, knowing I’d stand up to him.
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Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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I would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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