Author: Pat Conroy

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

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

- Pat Conroy

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

- Pat Conroy

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

- Pat Conroy

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

- Pat Conroy

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

- Pat Conroy

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

- Pat Conroy

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

- Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

- Pat Conroy

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

- Pat Conroy

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