478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons.

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

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.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and language-obsessed to that country where I make my living. Except for teaching, I’ve had no other ambition in life than to write books that mattered.

Though I’ve never met a teacher who was not happy in retirement, I rarely meet one who thinks that their teaching life was not a grand way to spend a human life. The unhappy ones are the young ones, those who must teach in public schools when the whole nation seems at war with the very essence of teaching.