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Charles Bock

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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
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Every author dreams of the kind of attention that 'Beautiful Children' has received in the press. Obviously, it's a shock whenever it happens. So yeah, I'm as surprised as everybody else. - Charles Bock
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It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings. - Charles Bock
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It wasn't a leap for me to go from not wanting to be in my body as a teenager, not wanting to be in my house, to thinking, 'What would happen if I had disappeared?' And then going from writing scenes of angry kids to thinking a little more about the parents and what their lives would be like. - Charles Bock
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One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too. - Charles Bock
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I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties. - Charles Bock
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I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body. - Charles Bock
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I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me. - Charles Bock
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Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in. - Charles Bock
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It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard. - Charles Bock
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Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance. - Charles Bock
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A woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel 'Go With Me' in my hand, and I took it to be nice. 'Yeah I'll probably read five pages,' I thought. But once I started, I could not put it down. - Charles Bock
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The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. - Charles Bock
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When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program. - Charles Bock
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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
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I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops. - Charles Bock
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