Carolina Quotes
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.
Charles Frazier Carolinian
Source
Publisher's interview on the publication of Cold Mountain, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997; reproduced by BookBrowse
- form
- interview
- work
- Interview on Cold Mountain
- year
- 1997
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“But what the absence of information allowed me to do was to …” Charles Frazier. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-4C51378800. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/4c51378800
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