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Pat Conroy
American Writer
Born: Oct 26, 1945
Died: Mar 4, 2016
About Father Life Love Me Mother
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Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. Pat Conroy
Love Family Ways Frantic Wounded Came
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. Pat Conroy
Art Me History Humanity Words Language Related Our Complexity Tell Powerful Most Most Powerful Continuity Singularity Itself Story English Species Origins
My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. Pat Conroy
Me Father Typing Take Childhood
Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling. Pat Conroy
Love Writing Words Imagination Else About More Fell Than Anything Anything Else Storytelling
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
Become Meet Saw Kids Poets Inspired Write Simply Were Festival Theater Movies Who Novelists Now
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
Hope Uncle Big Before Rich Enough Only House Well Well Enough Aunt Die
I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work. Pat Conroy
Work Good Me Once Way Good Ones Someone Bothers Devastated Never Like Read Audience Reviews Person Same Just Just One Barbra Streisand Even Applaud Her Streisand
I don't believe in happy families. Pat Conroy
Happy Believe Families
There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe. Pat Conroy
Travel Try Other Tribe Writers Effects Subtle Who
I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara. Pat Conroy
Life Mother Think Scarlett Modeled Dorothy Whole Her
I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course. Pat Conroy
God People Writing Made Mistakes About Like Course Off Up Where Grew Screwed Screwed-Up Fascinated By The People
My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life. Pat Conroy
Life Art Father My Life Fact Central Violence
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground. Pat Conroy
Family Risks Group Too Frail Meets Contain Vessel Impulses Common Common Ground Ground Warring Expressed
Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.' Pat Conroy
Great Me Construction Style Great Gatsby Writer Deliverance Perfection Reminded Praise His American James Pages Novel Found Now Published
When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia. Pat Conroy
Home Me Man Soul Enthusiasm Long Carolina Completion Though Collection Russia Russian Both Vast Bought Failed Read Returned South South Carolina Begin Literary Fictional Either Helped Tolstoy Bright March Imagine
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
Great Me Fear Made Own Draw Some My Own Attacked Writer Concentrate Contemporaries Forced Conclusions Were Trying Being
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.' Pat Conroy
Me Parenting You Mother Parents Kids Somehow Part Know Look Understand How Go Were Up Just Want Screwing Little Your Ignore Early Damaging

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