American - Writer | 1969 -
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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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.'
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What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.
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I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.
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Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.
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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.
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When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.
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Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
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My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
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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.
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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.
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When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
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