You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that.… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“A novelist must wrestle with all mysteries and strangeness of life itself, and anyone who dies not wish to accept that grand,… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief--I do not care one goddamned thing about how… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“It was a time in my life when many things bored me deeply and I hungered for beauty and those realms of… — 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
