Christopher Koch Quotes

Christopher Koch — Australian Novelist born on July 16, 1932, died on September 23, 2013

Christopher John Koch AO was an Australian novelist, known for his 1978 novel The Year of Living Dangerously, which was adapted into an award-winning film. He twice won the Miles Franklin Award. In 1995, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for contribution to Australian literature, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from his alma mater, the University of Tasmania in 1990... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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 Quotes

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