Charles Frazier quotes

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation. (Charles Frazier)
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
Charles Frazier
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 Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.
Charles Frazier
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 and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Charles Frazier
It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.
Charles Frazier
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 accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
Charles Frazier
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
Charles Frazier
If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.
Charles Frazier
We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.
Charles Frazier
What you have lost will not be returned to you; it always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on, or not. But if you go on, it's knowing you carry your scars with you.
Charles Frazier
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to. (Charles Frazier)
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 listen to music.
Charles Frazier
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
Charles Frazier
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze.
Charles Frazier
He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.
Charles Frazier
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 far back your memory extends.
Charles Frazier
It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.
Charles Frazier
Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
Charles Frazier
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical.
Charles Frazier
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 be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?
Charles Frazier
I know I don't need him, but I think I want him. (Charles Frazier)
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.
Charles Frazier
People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.
Charles Frazier
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
Charles Frazier
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 went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.
Charles Frazier