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
use world stories
I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.
basketball father knowing
Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.
athlete mimicry theft
Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.
children men taught-us
Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.
pride coward way
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
winning innocent cant-win
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
tree fruit sunlight
The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.
basketball athlete games
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
real men waiting
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
children thinking quality
Of the Yamacraw children, I can say little. I don't think I changed the quality of their lives significantly or altered the inexorable fact that they were imprisoned by the very circumstance of their birth.
born very-good point-guard
I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one,
regret prayer mean
It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.
believe happy-family dont-believe
I don’t believe in happy families,
opportunity challenges population
Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.