Skip to content

I wanted to be a great literary novelist so that people would eventually talk about Alan Coren the scribbler and father of the great Giles.

— Giles Coren The Jewish Chronicle (2007)

Another quote →

More quotes by Giles Coren

The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat.

The Jewish Chronicle (2007)

I am very snobby. My family is Orthodox so I would never go to a Reform rabbi.

The Jewish Chronicle (2007)

I get so excited when I know I’m going to a good restaurant, then, when I do the review, I write myself up into such a frenzy that I have to go out and eat all over again.

The Jewish Chronicle (2007)

Deep into his sixties (he never made it to his seventies), he would tap his fag hard against his brass Zippo like a soldier, toss it in his mouth, strike the flame on his thigh, spark it and exhale through his nose, then keep it clamped in his teeth as he typed, in line with the heavily marketed notion of the smoker as writer.

All Giles Coren quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Giles Coren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.