I’m not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I’m grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I told my kids when they were little, ‘Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don’t understand how, or we wouldn’t do it. But we’re parents. So somehow we’re damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.’ Pat Conroy Read Quote
When my novel ‘Beach Music’ came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I became a novelist because of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern’ because ‘Gone With the Wind’ set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. Pat Conroy Read Quote
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me ‘Gone With The Wind’ at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year. Pat Conroy Read Quote
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. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. Pat Conroy Read Quote
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. Pat Conroy Read Quote
