Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazieris an American novelist. He won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction for Cold Mountain...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 November 1950
CountryUnited States of America
thinking want needs
I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.
character thinking helping
It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
past thinking stronger
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.
thinking journey cold-mountain
Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
wyoming nebraska west
I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
needs cold-mountain seems
Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.
mind age literature
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.
attitude black style
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.
long desire redemption
There was a redemption of some kind, he believed, in such complete fulfillment of a desire so long deferred.
spirit cold-mountain cases
He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.
people why-not bitter
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?
character cold-mountain foul
We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical
children pain heart
...she knew in her heart that nature has a preference for a particular order: parents die, then children die. But it was a harsh design, offering little relief from pain, for being in accord with it means that the fortunate find themselves orphaned.
powerful air comforting
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it. The grouping of sounds, their forms in the air as they rang out and faded, said something comforting to him about the rule of Creation. What the music said was that there is a right way for things to be ordered so that life might not always be just tangle and drift, but have a shape, an aim. It was a powerful argument that life did not just happen.