Quotes by Charles Frazier

About Charles Frazier:

Charles Frazier is an American historical novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain.
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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

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

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

Charles Frazier

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...

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

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

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

From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days an...

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Frazier
  • Descriptionnovelist
  • BornNovember 4, 1950
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsNational Book Award; Lillian Smith Book Award