American - Writer | October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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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.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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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.
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
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To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.
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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.
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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.
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