Quote

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

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
Form
Rewarding
Better
Exile
Writing
Novelists
Burn
Ambition
Discipline
Necessary
Reading

More quotes by Pat Conroy

Image
Know this. I think you could be special if you only thought there was anything special about yourself.
Pat Conroy
Image
I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
Pat Conroy
Image
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
Pat Conroy
Image
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
Pat Conroy
Image
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
Pat Conroy
Image
Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.
Pat Conroy
Image
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
Pat Conroy
Image
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat Conroy
Image
The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
Pat Conroy
Image
My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.
Pat Conroy
Image
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Pat Conroy
Image
There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.
Pat Conroy
Image
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy
Image
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy
Image
Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
Pat Conroy
Image
Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.
Pat Conroy
Image
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
Pat Conroy
Image
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Pat Conroy
Image
There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.
Pat Conroy
Image
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
Pat Conroy