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Into Quotes by Pat Conroy
- One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
- Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them…
- I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does…
- No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and…
- I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This…
- Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the…
- Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or a black woman…
- Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull…
- I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
- Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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