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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

Topics: Bikes Books Did Listen Music Old Read Ride Same Same Things Things Walk Woods 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

Topics: Books Boy Business Colorado Dinner Faculty Goodness Grandparents Had Her House Insulted Little Me More One Time Plumbing Professor Said Than Time University Well You

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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

Topics: Am Day Efficient Good Good Day Half Love Maybe Me More Page Slow Well Writer I Am

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If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

~Charles Frazier

Topics: Give Had Listening Music Reading Stick Suspect Up

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I was 46 when 'Cold Mountain' came out. I was settled. We had a nice house in Raleigh and a horse farm.

~Charles Frazier

Topics: Came Cold Farm Had Horse House Mountain Nice Out Settled

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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

Topics: Because Come Easy Editor Even Find Just Look Me Novel Real Scare Scraps Second Them Trust Until Way Will Would Write Writing Year

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People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

~Charles Frazier

Topics: Been Circumstances Interest Isolate Isolated Me People Themselves Whether Who

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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

Topics: Blowing Channels Chicago Different Direction Got Heard Isolated Music Off Picked Place Radio Radio Stations Really Right Right Direction Sixties Stations Teenage Television Then Two Up Were Wind You

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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.

~Charles Frazier

Topics: Back Beautiful Been Business Came Checking Coming Cut Down Father Going Had Harris He Him His Kid Knife Mountain None Parents Remember School Side Son Who Why I Remember

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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.

~Charles Frazier

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: November 4th, 1950

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