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
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Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.
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I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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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.
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We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.
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One does not know where love will take you.
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I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
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Local people seemed very angry for a very long time. It was extraordinary backlash. I was called a liar, I was called every(thing) else. It was enough of a backlash that I moved to Atlanta.
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My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.
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I thought I'd stumbled onto Pluto. What I did not realize, I had stumbled into the great lie. They were separate but there was no equality whatsoever.