“They love their families with their hearts and souls and they wage war against them to prove it.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There's no word in the language I revere more than 'teacher.' My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“My mother’s family is passionate about visiting and cleaning the graves of their deceased. Once a year, the Peeks and the Nolens… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Not a single family finds itself exempt from that one haunted casualty who suffered irreparable damage in the crucible they entered at… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its… — 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
