39 Quotes About Pat-conroy

Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts—the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

Humor has always been the redemptive angel in the Conroys’s sad history. With this family, I shall never grow hungry from lack of material.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength.

Pat was a complicated and occasionally contradictory man, which is to say he was human, he was flawed, and he was still in the act of self-discovery, of becoming.

Sometimes darkness rode him like a harpy, but still. Funny. My Lord, he was funny. Even when his life was ricocheting from city to wife to book to tragedy—of which there were more than a few—he remained one of the funniest men I ever knew.

Pat had a turbulent personality, a complex mixture of joy and despair, but through it all, great love.

I was a distant father. I'd just go off and write. I did the thing that screws up kids more than anything else in America. I went and got myself a little bit famous.