Christopher Koch Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: australian
  • Birth: July 16, 1932 - September 23, 2013

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I had to go to Sunday school once or twice in my life, and that's where I commented someplace on hearing.

John C. Hawkes

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That's why writing is important to me. Time goes past, and you've been somewhere and come back that hasn't hurt you, and you've been somebody else.

Melvyn Bragg

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No matter how excluded you have become from Christmas, it is a genuinely inclusive matter; frankly, you are conscripted into it.

Robert Rinder

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I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

Matt Damon

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I'm sure that my compulsive eating habits began when I was a baby.

Jean Nidetch

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The obligation of the judge in the circuit is to follow the previous decisions in the circuit unless those decisions are overruled by an en bloc panel of the court.

Merrick Garland

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Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.

Rob Thomas

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Twitter could save a lot of money by writing its executives' names on their doors with pencil instead of fancy placards. Like an episode of 'Suits,' Twitter execs come, go, change jobs and disappear under black clouds every few minutes. Office administration costs must be astronomical!

Milo Yiannopoulos

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Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

Lisa Ling

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So many people are on television that don't know me, and they're like experts on me.

Donald Trump

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That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth.

Philip Kaufman

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I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Peter York

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