42 Quotes by Charles Bock

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.

Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project.

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.

When I was in college, I could only write on a WordPerfect program.

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

My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.

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 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.

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.