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

~Charles Bock

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

~Charles Bock

Topics: Brother Collected Comics Mine Older Older Brother Them Too Younger

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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.

~Charles Bock

Topics: About Angry Body Disappeared Go Going Had Happen House Kids Leap Like Little Lives Me More Parents Scenes Teenager Then Thinking Wanting Would Writing

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It's been wonderful to hear so many excited and intelligent responses to 'Beautiful Children,' not only from reviewers but also from the people coming out to my readings.

~Charles Bock

Topics: Also Beautiful Been Children Coming Excited Hear Intelligent Many Only Out People Readings Responses Reviewers Wonderful

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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.

~Charles Bock

Topics: Attention Author Beautiful Children Dreams Else Every Everybody Everybody Else Happens Kind Obviously Press Received Shock Surprised Whenever Yeah

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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.

~Charles Bock

Topics: Answers Best Best Way Dealing Fiction Me Most Profound Questions Single Way

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

~Charles Bock

Topics: About Book Cliffs College Even Good Good Book Like Myself Notes Read Reading Remember Should Sounds Thinking I Remember

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

~Charles Bock

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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.

~Charles Bock

Topics: Always Am Been Create Got House Interested Less Moved Person Than Top Whose I Am

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

~Charles Bock

Topics: Books Her His Learn Live Long Long Time Must One Thing Project Takes Thing Time Writer Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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