Christopher Koch Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Christopher Koch quotes and sayings (novelist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.”
“The unseen world is what emanates from God.”
“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 you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.”
“I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.”
“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, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.”
“All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or both.”
“Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.”
“I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.”
“I do believe in God.”
“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 in life, most people are a mixture.”
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