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
south-carolina states cult
South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
mistake feelings century
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
mean home different
I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.
intellectual south-carolina roles
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
memories
Except for memory, time would have no meaning at all.
library looks shows
A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
laughter fall world
Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.
beach earth sound
Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
baseball wine numbers
Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
paranoia found position
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
art media land
Will his work survive? Alas, I worry that it will not. As an American liberal with impeccable credentials, I would like to say that political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas, to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself. Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia, on feminism, and on the media. It is a form of both madness and maggotry, and has already silenced the voices of writers like James Dicky across the land.
perfect water imagination
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
unhappy happy-family born
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
writing way my-own-life
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.