Charles Frazier Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• While writing Cold Mountain, I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.

  Charles Frazier

  Clever, Writing, Two

  "Week three: Charles Frazier on writing Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

• 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.

  Charles Frazier

  Spring, Wings, Roots

  Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.300, Atlantic Monthly Press

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

  Charles Frazier

  Horse, Nice, House

• 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

  Beautiful, Father, School

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