Author: Pat Conroy

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

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

- 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.

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

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

- 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

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

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

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 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

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

- Pat Conroy

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