"I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write."

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Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.

Herman Koch

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“When it comes to the health of our families, Barack refused to listen to all those folks who told him to leave health reform for another day, another president. He didn't care whether it was the easy thing to do politically - that's not how he was raised - he cared that it was the right thing to do.”
“[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!”

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“Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison”
“I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.”
“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
“... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.”
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“Sharing a bit of yourself, opening a window into your own world, is a good place to begin.”

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