The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster… — Charles Frazier 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 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 Copy Share Image
“When Luce did look in the mirror, she thought she might still be sort of pretty, if you went by what most… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything… — Charles Frazier 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 Copy Share Image
Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do. — Charles Frazier 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 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
“They were both at such an age that they stood on a cusp. They could think in one part of their minds… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around… — Charles Frazier 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 Copy Share Image
“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him. He held her tight and words… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if… — Charles Frazier 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
One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier 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 Copy Share Image
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“They [in the northern country] had, as well, invented a holiday called Thanksgiving, which Ruby had only recently got news of, but from what… — Charles Frazier 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 Copy Share Image
All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Monroe had in fact preached that God was not at all such a one as ourselves, not one to be temperamentally inclined to tread… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much. — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Among themselves, they had figured out how to go about marriage so as to accomplish the least damage. The husbands lived two hours away...” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you… — Charles Frazier 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 map of… — Charles Frazier 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 had been… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
