Christopher Koch quotes:

I do believe in God.

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

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.

The unseen world is what emanates from God.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.