Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

— Pat Conroy

Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.

— Pat Conroy

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

— Pat Conroy

“my folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and…

— Pat Conroy

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact…

— Pat Conroy

Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

— Pat Conroy

“My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing in the integrity of…

— Pat Conroy

“We began our life together at a moment of natural self-pity and defeat that left an inimitable impression on both of us.…

— Pat Conroy

“I always liked your piety, Jack.” “I’m a lot cuter than the women of your generation,” Betsy said, playing up to Capers…

— Pat Conroy

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their…

— Pat Conroy

“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

“Over the years, my church gave me passage into a menagerie of exotic words unknown in the South: "introit," "offertory," "liturgy," "movable…

— Pat Conroy

“I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in…

— Pat Conroy

“Time moves funny and it's hard to pin down. Occasionally, time offers you a hundred opportunities to do the right thing. Sometimes,…

— Pat Conroy

“I take it as an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.”

— Pat Conroy

“I meditated on the nature of friendship as I practiced the craft. My friends had always come from outside the mainstream. I…

— Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278…

— Pat Conroy

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets…

— Pat Conroy

“It both surprised and angered me that {they} had reached a consensus of agreement against me. The way I looked at the…

— Pat Conroy

We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a…

— Pat Conroy

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

— Pat Conroy

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter…

— Pat Conroy

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I…

— Pat Conroy

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…

— Pat Conroy

“Art is one of the few places where talent and madness can actually go to squirrel away inside each other.”

— Pat Conroy