Charles Frazier Quotes

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Age Books Desire Giving Memories Mountain Pain

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

Charles Frazier

Book, Healing, Woods

Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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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.

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Strong, Pain, Grief

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

Charles Frazier

Dark, Light, Circles

Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.245, Random House

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When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

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Forever, Desire, Gone

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.5, Random House

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When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.

Charles Frazier

Valuable, Available

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.416, Random House

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She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

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Book, Pages, Conversation

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Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

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Book, Dollars, Littles

Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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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 damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

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Past, Weakness, Way

Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.42, Random House

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Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

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Pain, Skins, Worst

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.341, Random House

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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.

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Life, Knowing, Goes On

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.421, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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, but I am not.

Charles Frazier

Love, Good Day, Age

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Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

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Mistake, Bird, Singing

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.279, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

Charles Frazier

Character, Thinking, Helping

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[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

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Redemption, Matter, Waste

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.297, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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 an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

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Real, Writing, Years

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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.

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Book, Years, Woods

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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.

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Hate, Fire, Air

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People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

Charles Frazier

People, Circumstances, Interest

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But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.

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Thinking, Light, Bullshit

Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.154, Random House

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I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

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Taken, Writing, Class

"Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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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.

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Taken, Space, Long

Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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?

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People, Why Not, Bitter

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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.

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Memories, Writing, Labels

"Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical

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Character, Cold Mountain, Foul

Charles Frazier (2007). “Cold Mountain: A Novel”, p.25, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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

Too Much, Study, Complicated

Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

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