Charles Frazier Professions : Novelist Born : November 4, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 66 quotes by Charles Frazier What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak? Charles Frazier vocabulary opportunity life 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. Charles Frazier nerves wish want 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 If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music. Charles Frazier giving-up reading listening From my childhood, I remember a tiny old woman named Mary, made pale and almost translucent by time. Mary's childhood memories extended back to the confusing and violent finale of the Civil War, and she told stories of brutal murders in those days and refused to name some of the killers, as if dead men might still be prosecuted in the late 1950s. Charles Frazier men memories war I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska. Charles Frazier colorado wyoming nebraska Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors