Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
Pat Conroy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Gone
Reading
Read
Mother
Bed
Night
Wind
Remember
Went
Years
Almost
Year
More quotes by Pat Conroy
I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.
Pat Conroy
The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.
Pat Conroy
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
Pat Conroy
From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited any readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
Pat Conroy
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
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
Pat Conroy
Families without songs are unhappy families.
Pat Conroy
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
Pat Conroy
But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
Pat Conroy
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.
Pat Conroy
There are no verdicts to childhood, only consequences, and the bright freight of memory.
Pat Conroy
A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
Pat Conroy
Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
Pat Conroy
Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
Pat Conroy
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
Pat Conroy
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
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
Pat Conroy
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
Pat Conroy
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