Quotes by Pat Conroy

About Pat Conroy:

Pat Conroy is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.
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A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

Pat Conroy

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

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Violence send deep roots into the heart, it has no seasons, it is always ripe, evergreen.

Pat Conroy

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

Pat Conroy

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

Pat Conroy

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 almost all year.

Pat Conroy

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Pat Conroy

Writing has never been that simple for me.

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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, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful co...

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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

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I don't believe in happy families.

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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.

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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

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I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Pat Conroy

When friends come to Rome in early summer to visit me I like to take them to the Pantheon during thunderstorms and stand them beneath the opening of the feathery, perfectly proportioned dome as rain falls through the open roof against the marble floo...

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Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn ...

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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children

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Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.

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You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

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Author Bio

  • NamePat Conroy
  • DescriptionNovelist
  • BornOctober 26, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBaseball Player; Novelist
  • WorksThe Great Santini; The Lords Of Discipline; The Prince Of Tides
  • AwardsLillian Smith Book Award