Quotes by : Pat Conroy

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

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald,....

Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls....

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family....

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the....

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

Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing....

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

The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.