Pat Conroy Quotes

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Pat Conroy

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 26, 1945

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

Pat Conroy

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

Pat Conroy

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

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.

Pat Conroy

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

Pat Conroy

I'm not the lovable, wonderful, tenderhearted grandfather that you read about in books. I'm grouchy and curmudgeonly, and I have a lot of rules.

Pat Conroy