Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

Something I found while writing 'Alice & Oliver' - a book that is unquestionably a work of fiction, but which also borrows…

— Charles Bock

As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

My sister, who is a wonderful and beautiful actress now, when she was 11 or 12, she would go out and take…

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

I remember, even in college, reading Cliffs Notes about a book and thinking to myself, 'Geez, that sounds like a good book.…

— Charles Bock

I'm not really a meditator. I'm, like, a napper.

— Charles Bock

I do think that people go to Las Vegas for 'whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.' They go for the spectacle.

— Charles Bock

I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do as little work in the…

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

Art, you know, art and fiction, especially in big books, you know, it takes a while.

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock

In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read…

— Charles Bock

When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I…

— Charles Bock

One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.

— Charles Bock

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases -…

— Charles Bock

My parents have a pawnshop in Downtown Las Vegas for quite awhile. I grew up seeing people come in and want -…

— Charles Bock

'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be…

— Charles Bock

I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone…

— Charles Bock

A writer has to write something that they're - sit down with or are interested in every day of their life.

— Charles Bock

My grandfather was a pawnbroker, and when I was in first or second grade, my parents opened their own store. I probably…

— Charles Bock

What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten.

— Charles Bock

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

— Charles Bock