Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy
Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroywas a New York Times bestselling American author who wrote 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 October 1945
CityAtlanta, GA
CountryUnited States of America
mean greatness laziness
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
happiness beautiful flawless
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
eye expression tongue
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
laughter fate law
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 the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.
moving stories living-things
A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...
writing light interesting
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
stories
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
music beautiful hurt
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
running mind victory
The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.
action has-beens
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
lying silence form
... silence (can) be the most eloquent form of lying.
tides geography port
My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
inspirational life travel
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.
knowing bottles passionate
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.