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Charlie Close
Goodreads Author
Born
in Seattle, WA, The United States
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Genre
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Member Since
September 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/charlieclose
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The Art of the Very Short Story: A Guide for Readers and Writers
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2011
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3 editions
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My Darling Husband, Charlie and Kathy stories of gifts and surprises
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2011
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2 editions
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Falling in Love While Meditating: Very Short Stories
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Childish Things: Stories of Growing Up
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2013
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2 editions
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Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
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2015
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Rough & Beautiful, Very Short Romance Stories
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2011
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4 editions
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Blue Sky? 98 Questions for the IT Project Manager
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published
2011
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3 editions
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Burning Embers and Other Stories of Marriage, Work, and Family
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2009
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3 editions
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Ask the Page, Three stories for frustrated writers
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2011
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3 editions
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Small Talk
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New book announcement
Hi, everyone,
I’m pleased to announce that soon I will publish a new collection of stories called Every Floor But One: Very Short Stories. It’s available now for pre-order on Amazon. Release is set for May 5, 2018.
In this collection of very short stories, even the smallest moments are filled with the grief of life and the joy of death.
We see graveyards and ravens and
Read more of this blog post »
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“Mr. Lilly, on the other hand, is not selling me a product I can use. He is selling a fancy new thing called a methodology. You know what a methodology is? It's a painted box filled with nothing except my own desires for a more profitable company. He is looking to take a percentage of the transaction between me and my own soul without creating any value. This is a very old trick that's been going on since religion began. It is without ethics and it distinguishes me from Mr. Lilly.”
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
“It tugged at his soul not to talk to other writers about his work. He loved the bank, keeping it secure and compliant with the laws and regulations. People assumed these things happened by magic. They did not. Hauer never talked about it outside the office. He didn't want to make the other writers uncomfortable. If he developed a reputation as someone who brought his work with him to writers conferences they would all turn away, to sip and swizzle their drinks without him.”
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
“If I have a spreadsheet that can, whatever, turn soup cans into gold, wouldn't I deserve an office?”
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
― Before the Ripcord Broke: Stories
“I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The
struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form,
and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same.
It's like the defining story of who you are.
-Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters"
http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/”
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struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form,
and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same.
It's like the defining story of who you are.
-Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters"
http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/”
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“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird-- that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace--making the complicated simple, awesomely simple--that's creativity.”
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“The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences and observations following that presentation.
(Cooper Union address, 1860)”
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(Cooper Union address, 1860)”
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