Charles Frazier Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Charles Frazier quotes and sayings page 2 (novelist). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.”
“If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.”
“I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.”
“I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.”
“I remember my father checking on a mountain kid who hadn't been coming to school. My father had this beautiful Harris tweed overcoat. He came back with a knife cut all down one side. The parents had told him it was none of his business why their son wasn't going to school.”
“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.”
“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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