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Charles Bock
American
Writer
Born:
1969
Beautiful
Book
Me
People
School
Writing
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It's understandable why someone might not want to take on a book they think is emotionally hard.
Charles Bock
Book
Think
Someone
Take
Emotionally
Understandable
Want
Might
Hard
Why
Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in.
Charles Bock
Great
Live
Great Place
Vegas
Place
Las Vegas
I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.
Charles Bock
Memories
Unhappy
Teenager
Complete
Ran
Never
Like
Felt
Very
Wanting
Body
Away
Here
Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
Charles Bock
Life
Try
Write
Adult
Adult Life
Fiction
Worked
Really
Whole
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
Charles Bock
Better
Being
Being Honest
Should
Things
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.
Charles Bock
Myself
Practice
Enough
Way
Could
Had
Disciplined
Scientific
Lots
Flatter
Even
Medical
Things
Imagine
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.
Charles Bock
School
Long
Would
Stayed
About
Could
Write
Vegas
Knew
Wrote
Expand
Grad
Grad School
Trying
Different
Story
Then
Different Things
Away
Things
Early
As I matured, I became a smarter person, a more sensitive person, a more thinking person.
Charles Bock
Thinking
More
Smarter
Became
Matured
Person
Sensitive
I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.
Charles Bock
Work
Great
Legal
People
Will
Somewhere
Whatever
Month
Hey
Say
Jobs
Someone
Weeks
His
Lot
Friend
Office
Did
Taught
Where
Fiction
Might
Then
Workshops
Two
Need
Two Weeks
After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.
Charles Bock
Love
Believe
Would
Would-Be
Passed
Diana
Did
After
Again
Second
I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.
Charles Bock
Unhappy
Teenager
Way
Around
Just
I really love my chosen craft. No matter whether it's disappearing or disappeared from the mainstream, that's really been where my mind and heart is.
Charles Bock
Love
Heart
Matter
Mind
Disappeared
Disappearing
Mainstream
Been
Craft
Where
Whether
Really
Chosen
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
Parents
First
Own
Back
Count
Putting
Opened
Tickets
Learned
Grade
Shop
Order
Store
Room
Grandfather
Pawn
Second
Numerical
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