Quotes by : Pat Conroy

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be....

In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance....

Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches.....

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece....

My memory often seems like a city of exiled poets afire with the astonishment of language, each believing....

It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much.

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

To have attracted readers is the most magical part of my writing life. I was not expecting you to show....

I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with....

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing....