Author: Christopher Koch

Quotes

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.

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.

- 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 in life, most people are a mixture.

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.

- 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 write poetry.

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.

- 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 my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

When I grew up in Tasmania, you thought that London was home. You waited to go to England as soon as you graduated, in my case on a ship bound for London via Genoa.

- Christopher Koch

I do believe in God.

I do believe in God.

- Christopher Koch

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

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

- Christopher Koch

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

- 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 event of my books. It's my characters.

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 event of my books. It's my characters.

- Christopher Koch

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

I've never set a book in Europe. I've lived in Europe three times, but somehow or other it wasn't the experience that engaged me in that way.

- Christopher Koch

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