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It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to
Charles Frazier
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Charles Frazier
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: November 4
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Asheville
North Carolina
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A lizard in the spring - hear his darling sing. A bird with wings to fly - go back to his darling weep and moan till he dies. A mole in the ground - root a mountain down.
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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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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.
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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.
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Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.
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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.
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I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.
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Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.
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I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.
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When everything is immediately available and infinitely reproducible, nothing is valuable.
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You never know when somebody will pull you to them.
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All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.
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What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
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Verbs. All of them tiring.
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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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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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Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.
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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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Needing and getting don’t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do.
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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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