Charles Bock

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

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

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. ”

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. ”

After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again. ”

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. ”

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

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

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. ”

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