Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do. — Charles Frazier Needs Copy Share Image
“Lola's only nugget of wisdom to her little daughters was Never cry, never ever.” — Charles Frazier Daughters Copy Share Image
“But one day leads to another, and so on. No way around it. It's that merciless thing that time does.” — Charles Frazier Merciless Copy Share Image
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. — Charles Frazier Good thing Copy Share Image
“Inman's only thought looking on the enemy was, "Go home.” — Charles Frazier Looking 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
“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.” — Charles Frazier Material world 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“That's the way it is at some point in life. An inevitable consequence of living. A lot of things begin falling away.” — Charles Frazier Falling Copy Share Image
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But… — Charles Frazier Assault Copy Share Image
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. — Charles Frazier Might Copy Share Image
Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the… — Charles Frazier Believe Copy Share Image
“They say this war is a cloud over the land! But they make the weather and then they stand in the rain… — Charles Frazier Rain Copy Share Image
“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and… — Charles Frazier Rain 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 window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face… — Charles Frazier Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early… — Charles Frazier Appalachian Copy Share Image
“When Ada disappeared into the trees, it was like a part of the richness of the world had gone with her. He… — Charles Frazier Cold mountain Copy Share Image
“So she guessed you could word hard to make yourself who you wanted to be and yet find that the passing years… — Charles Frazier Transformed Copy Share Image
I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed… — Charles Frazier Beautiful Copy Share Image
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can,… — Charles Frazier Comfortable 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
“They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds… — Charles Frazier Cold Copy Share Image
“It is tempting to look back at Bear’s people from the perspective of this modern world and see them as changeless and… — Charles Frazier Modern world 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
“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
“She had been struck by the figure of a woman's back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure… — Charles Frazier Dark hair Copy Share Image
“A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the… — Charles Frazier Song 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
“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
But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike… — Charles Frazier Bullshit Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Class Copy Share Image
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. — Charles Frazier Bad idea Copy Share Image
“Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.” — Charles Frazier Children Copy Share Image
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character Copy Share Image
