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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.

~Christopher Koch

Topics: Again Artists Because Coffee Come Condition Cup Death Edge Even Like Literally Lot Much Once Out Suppose Sweeter Tastes Would Writers You

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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

Topics: Bound Case England Go Graduated Grew Home London Ship Soon Thought Up Via Waited You

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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.

~Christopher Koch

Topics: About Asia British British Empire Creature Empire Extent How Live Novelists Period Reflect Relate Should Some Transition Views World You

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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.

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Topics: Book Engaged Europe Experience Lived Me Never Other Set Somehow Three Times Way

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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

Topics: Any Asia Business Childish Engaged Experience Extent Imagination Level Moves Personal Really Some Very Writers You

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Novelist

Born: July 16th, 1932

Died: September 23rd, 2013

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