“The narrator welcomes new students to his school by offering to tell them who the easy teachers are, or who the good… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Great teachers had great personalities and that the greatest teachers had outrageous personalities. I did not like decorum or rectitude in a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Teaching is a record of failures. But the glory of teaching is in the attempt.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Think instead about children. People. Human beings. Feel for once that education is about people—not figures.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of his own… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us. The rejection… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers and Mike.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable feast," "the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
