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 Change 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
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
“Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day… — Charles Frazier Day night 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 Bitter Copy Share Image
“... a man's spirit could be torn apart and cease and yet his body keep on living...His spirit blasted away so that… — Charles Frazier Death 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
“Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives… — Charles Frazier Pain 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
“Life can get fucked up fast when you try to be a pleaser. Because people won't ever be pleased, not even if… — Charles Frazier Life Copy Share Image
“What they need is everything even and smooth. Not love or hate, pleasure or pain, hope or fear, safety or danger. Nobody… — Charles Frazier Fear Copy Share Image
“Musicians add to songs and they evolve: For as was true of human effort, there was never advancement. Everything added meant something… — Charles Frazier Life Copy Share Image
What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You’re left with only your scars to mark… — Charles Frazier Goes on 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
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out… — Charles Frazier Burned 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 Book 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
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn't do you any good whatsoever.” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time. — Charles Frazier Desire Copy Share Image
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred. — Charles Frazier Desire Copy Share Image
I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm. — Charles Frazier Cold Copy Share Image
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation… — Charles Frazier Attributes 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 The past Copy Share Image
When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable. — Charles Frazier Valuable Copy Share Image
