All Pat Conroy Quotes
- Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. Anything Else
- I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown. Books
- The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. Always Played
- I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist. College
- I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange. Bit
- A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal. Ends
- Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte,… Acolyte
- A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. All
- A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to… Act
- Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks. American
- My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It… Attacked
- I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. Bear
- Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. Came
- I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. Affects
- My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate… All