When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. — Charles Frazier Infinitely Copy Share Image
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well. — Charles Frazier Bad idea Copy Share Image
I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier Class Copy Share Image
“Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.” — Charles Frazier Children Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Desire 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
Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. — Charles Frazier Break 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
“I consider it a mutual duty, that we owe to each other, to communicate in a spirit of the utmost frankness and… — Charles Frazier Ada Copy Share Image
“Days of yore when America was no more than a strip of land stretching a couple hundred miles west of the Atlantic… — Charles Frazier Thirteen-moons Copy Share Image
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if… — Charles Frazier Constant 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
“Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.” — Charles Frazier Break 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
“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
“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
“With the snow piling up outside, the warm dry cabin hidden in its fold of the mountain felt like a safe haven… — Charles Frazier Haven 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 Better now 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
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
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Age 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
“Bleak as the scene was, though, there was growing joy in Inman's heart. He was nearing home; he could feel it in… — Charles Frazier Bleak 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 First time 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
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was… — Charles Frazier Aim 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
“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
“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
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to — Charles Frazier Character 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
“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
“The horror is other people. The things they think up to do to you.” — Charles Frazier Horror Copy Share Image
“At the first gesture of morning, flies began stirring.” — Charles Frazier First-sentence Copy Share Image
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness. — Charles Frazier Destructiveness Copy Share Image
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.” — Charles Frazier World Copy Share Image
