Any Quote by Christopher Koch

Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death,…

— Christopher Koch

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels…

— Christopher Koch

The unseen world is what emanates from God.

— Christopher Koch

Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.

— Christopher Koch

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

— Christopher Koch

When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in…

— Christopher Koch

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to…

— Christopher Koch

I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.

— Christopher Koch

I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as…

— Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main…

— Christopher Koch

I do believe in God.

— Christopher Koch