Charles Bock Quotes
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My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want - need - money so they could go and gamble again or so they could pay their bills or whatever reason, and try and sell items that were of value to them.
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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.
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In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether.
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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.
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Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.
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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.
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I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.
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I'm not really a meditator. I'm, like, a napper.
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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.
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After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.
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I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.
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I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties.
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One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.
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'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
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My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of the punk parties in the desert. She used to have blue hair, and she got kicked out of Las Vegas Day School for having blue hair.
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Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
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I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.