The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It’s not like it doesn’t affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me. Pat Conroy Read Quote
It’s an article of faith that the novels I’ve loved will live inside me forever. Pat Conroy Read Quote
To Southerners like my mother, ‘Gone With the Wind’ was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. Pat Conroy Read Quote
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don’t travel in that tribe. Pat Conroy Read Quote
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel ‘Deliverance’ was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ Pat Conroy Read Quote
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I’ve failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia. Pat Conroy Read Quote
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. Pat Conroy Read Quote
I’ve met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character. Pat Conroy Read Quote
