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" Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction. "
Charles Bock
Try
Write
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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.' "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" The literary world is filled with good and generous people. But then that's what writing is all about - empathy. "
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" I always thought of Caesars as the gold standard. I had exactly one date in high school, and my father knew someone who got us comped here for the Sammy Davis Jr. show. We heard 'Candy Man,' 'Mr. Bojangles' - the whole list. And then my date and I went off to the dance - homecoming, I think - where she pretty much ignored me. "
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" A woman at a bookstore in Brattleboro, Vt., put Castle Freeman Jr.'s novel 'Go With Me' in my hand, and I took it to be nice. 'Yeah I'll probably read five pages,' I thought. But once I started, I could not put it down. "
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" I was always small and thin. I wasn't the kid who got invited to parties. "
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" Las Vegas is a great place to be from, not to live in. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Me
" 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. "
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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. "
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" What I try to do is write about forgotten people, and, in a certain sense, we're all forgotten. "
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" In English, I never did the reading when it was assigned. If a paper was due on Friday, my attitude was, read half the book on Tuesday, the second half on Wednesday, and write the paper Thursday night. Sometimes, I'd just read the Cliff's Notes and skip the book altogether. "
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