Charles Frazier

North Carolina · born or raised South Carolina · connectedBorn 1950

American novelist

Born in Asheville
Lived in North Carolina
Studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Studied at University of South Carolina
Studied at Appalachian State University

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I think as you get older you get a sense of what is important in life and what is significant enough to write about.

But what the absence of information allowed me to do was to make up a character and make a story, and that's what novelists need to do.

One of the things that music does is sum up a culture in some very concrete way.

But there are landscapes, I think, that people just identify as home, wherever home is. And for me, that's home. Whenever I'm back in those mountains, I feel like that's home, no matter how long I've been away. That's the place I know the best, and the place that in my imagination sums up all those things about being rooted and knowing a place and having a place.

Well, I think that thinking about the past is always useful. To look at where we've been and where we are and to think about what we've gained and what we've lost to get here, to think about whether that's been a good deal or not, I think is always useful.