My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably learned to count by putting pawn tickets in numerical order in the back room of the shop. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows details from… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take pictures of… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Writing books takes a long time, and one thing a writer must do is learn to live with his or her project. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book. I should… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the world as… — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while. — Charles Bock Copy Share Image
