478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister, Savannah, though only three, cried aloud to our mother, to Luke and me, to the river and the moon, "Oh, Mama, do it again!" And I had my earliest memory.

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.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.