Author: Charles Bock

Quotes

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

- Charles Bock

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.

- Charles Bock

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.

To me, fiction is the single best way there is - to me, it's the most profound way - of dealing with questions that have no answers.

- Charles Bock

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should probably read it.'

- Charles Bock

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy.

- Charles Bock

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

I flatter myself to even imagine I could have had a medical practice. There's no way. I'm not scientific or disciplined enough, lots of things.

- Charles Bock

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as possible so I could hoard time to write.

- Charles Bock

Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.

Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.

- Charles Bock

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