There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
GILES CORENMy dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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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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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World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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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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Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
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Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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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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I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I’m going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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