Charles Frazier Quotes

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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.

  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.

  Charles Frazier

  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.

  Charles Frazier

  Forever, Desire, Gone

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

  Charles Frazier

  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.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Dollars, Littles

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

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• Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

  Charles Frazier

  Pain, Skins, Worst

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

  Charles Frazier

  Past, Weakness, Way

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

  Charles Frazier

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

  Charles Frazier

  Character, Thinking, Helping

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Mistake, Bird, Singing

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

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Years, Woods

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Redemption, Matter, Waste

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

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Hate, Fire, Air

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  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.

  Charles Frazier

  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.

  Charles Frazier

  Taken, Space, Long

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

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Memories, Writing, Labels

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

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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?

  Charles Frazier

  People, Why Not, Bitter

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• He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

  Charles Frazier

  Regret, Names, Might

  Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.281, Atlantic Monthly Press

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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.

  Charles Frazier

  Real, Writing, Years

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• 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

  Book, Boys, Grandparent

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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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• Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.

  Charles Frazier

  Hurt, Forever, Sin

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

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