"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."

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

Charles Frazier

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“And step by step You'll lead me / And I will follow You all of my days.”
“It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.”
“Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.”
“Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so we can turn its mountains into money.”
“Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.”
“Compared to Imelda Marcos, Marie Antoinette was a bag lady.”
“What I am sad about is that there is now, in America, no equivalent to the art circuit.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I learned that the problems that we have are not solved by blaming somebody else, and that our hope is not in who governs us as a nation. It's not in Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or Ron Paul. Our hope is in the power of God and his gospel working in the hearts of people.”

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