All Pat Conroy Quotes
- Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses? Doctors
- ... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying. Eloquent
- Families without songs are unhappy families. Families
- (You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed. Chicken
- I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. Change
- I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto… Festival
- I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it… Applaud
- I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. Aunt
- I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee. Chimpanzee
- I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. Book
- I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. Cackled
- My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. Childhood
- When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading… All
- Writing has never been that simple for me. Been
- Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung… Ached
- I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it. Cook
- There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory. Bright
- College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts. College
- Saints make wonderful grandfathers and lousy husbands. Grandfather
- The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement. Caution