Australian - Novelist | July 16, 1932 - September 23, 2013
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.
Christopher Koch
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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.
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Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.
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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.
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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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I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.
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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.
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The unseen world is what emanates from God.
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I do believe in God.
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Basically, it comes down to this: do you believe in God, or don't you believe in God.
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I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
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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.
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