478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

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.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

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.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.