Quote

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

Pat Conroy

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
Author
Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Moments
Emblematic
Cannot
Shiver
Remember
Recall
Heart
Irresistible
Recalls
Fragments
Entirely
Shivers
Childhood
Quicksilver

More quotes by Pat Conroy

Image
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
Pat Conroy
Image
It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
Pat Conroy
Image
Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.
Pat Conroy
Image
If smallness was fortune, then I had come across a treasure, infinitesimal and beyond value. I felt lucky. You had to decide what was estimable and precious in your life and set out to find it. The objects you valued defined you.
Pat Conroy
Image
Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up.
Pat Conroy
Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
Pat Conroy
Image
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
Pat Conroy
Image
The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.
Pat Conroy
Image
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
Pat Conroy
Image
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
Pat Conroy
Image
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
Pat Conroy
Image
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
Pat Conroy
Image
She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
Pat Conroy
Image
The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.
Pat Conroy
Image
The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
Pat Conroy
Image
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
Pat Conroy
Image
I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.
Pat Conroy
Image
My mother raised me to be a writer.
Pat Conroy
Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.
Pat Conroy
Image
Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.
Pat Conroy