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
Pat Conroy quotes about
humanity inhumanity
Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
lovers institutions
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
mirrors camouflage strategy
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
dream hate letters
I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.
writing thinking form
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
life winning forever
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
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.
teaching coaching good-teaching
Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
ideas barbecue no-idea
There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
keys solitude world
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
law evil
Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
journey wire revelations
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
heart childhood remember
These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
fashion mean doe
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 not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.