When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud” — Charles Frazier Character-description Copy Share Image
“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.” — Charles Frazier Lily Copy Share Image
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. — Charles Frazier Giving Copy Share Image
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character Copy Share Image
“They did what they did, and moved forward despite whatever trail of ashes they left behind.” — Charles Frazier Left behind Copy Share Image
“Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.” — Charles Frazier Children Copy Share Image
“I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are… — Charles Frazier Going away Copy Share Image
“Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling… — Charles Frazier Bird Copy Share Image
“By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can… — Charles Frazier Rape Copy Share Image
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“After she had licked the last white drop of the ice cream, she reached out her cone to Mrs. McKennet and said,… — Charles Frazier Ice cream Copy Share Image
“He floated along thinking he would like to love the world as it was, and he felt a great deal of accomplishment… — Charles Frazier Accomplishment Copy Share Image
The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction.… — Charles Frazier Chicago Copy Share Image
“The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face… — Charles Frazier Thought Copy Share Image
From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended… — Charles Frazier Brutal Copy Share Image
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let… — Charles Frazier Books Copy Share Image
I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Book Copy Share Image
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and… — Charles Frazier Age Copy Share Image
“If you are in the mountains alone for some time, many days at minimum, & it helps if you are fasting. The… — Charles Frazier Animals Copy Share Image
“The cabins they passed among seemed solemn in their abandonment, cramped by the watercourse and the overhanging brow of the cloudy mountain.… — Charles Frazier Another world Copy Share Image
“I cannot decide whether it is an illness or a sin, the need to write things down and fix the flowing world… — Charles Frazier Memory Copy Share Image
“Where had he been? Drinking, obviously. Then she started cataloging all the ways he was worthless. On fool impulse, as his most… — Charles Frazier Drinking Copy Share Image
“Survive long enough and you get to a far point in life where nothing else of particular interest is going to happen.… — Charles Frazier Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“From inside the tavern came the sounds of a fiddle being tuned, various plucks and tentative bowings, then a slow and groping… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“In his mind, Inman likened the swirling paths of vulture flight to the coffee grounds seeking pattern in his cup. Anyone could… — Charles Frazier Future Copy Share Image
“On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Creation Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Desire Copy Share Image
“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.” — Charles Frazier Horror Copy Share Image
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.” — Charles Frazier World Copy Share Image
“the path to contentment was to abide by one's own nature and follow it's path.” — Charles Frazier Contentment Copy Share Image
“But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.” — Charles Frazier Black hole Copy Share Image
“If I had a brother in jail and one in Georgia, I'd try to bust the one out of Georgia first.” — Charles Frazier Brother Copy Share Image