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Pat Conroy

I’m not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I’m grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

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.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

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

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

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.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I’ve failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

I mark the reading of ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

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.

– Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

My father’s violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

– Pat Conroy

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