“I had a string of really awful jobs in Manhattan where my whole point was to do …” — Charles Bock

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.

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

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

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