Charles Frazier Quotes

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• No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own…
• So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and…
• Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft…
• What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of…
• It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
• Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient,…
• I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And…
• I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
• I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.
• If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
• People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
• From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the…
• I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and…
• I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came…
• I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about just…
• I've never been very attached to genre labels and never set out intentionally to write historic fiction. Besides, what you consider historic depends on how…
• One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a…
• Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to…
• The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can…
• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations…

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