478 Quotes by Pat Conroy

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

She had awakened something in him that had slumbered far too long. Not only did he feel passion, he felt the return of hope.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.