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
writing thinking form
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
attention dignity demon
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
father childhood let-me
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
thinking skins way
I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
teacher world literature
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
stories recipes meals
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
beautiful girl sweet
Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring as she flung azaleas like a girl throwing rice at a desperate wedding. In dazzling profusion, Colleton ripened in a gauze of sweet gardens and the town ached beneath a canopy of promissory fragrance.
passion long return
She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.
lovers institutions
I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
memories childhood verdict
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
men honor presence-of-god
Honor is the presence of God in man.
book heart character
Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
kids writing festivals
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
country children warrior
The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.