42 Quotes by Charles Bock

Each and everyone of us moves towards faiths we cannot possibly know. Each of us struggles against the pain of the world even as we are doomed to join it.

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

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.

I very much loved my late wife, Diana Joy Colbert, and I'd rather hold onto what I can.

I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties.

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.

Let's just say I'm a believer in universal, single-payer healthcare insurance.

It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.

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