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Pat Conroy Quotes

American - Writer | October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.

Mother Me Wind Night Reading Year

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.

Now Movies Meet Become Write Saw

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

Hope Rich Die Enough Uncle House

My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

Father Childhood Me Take Typing

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

Long Hand Write Still Like Type

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

Life Relationship Think Books About

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.

Work Good Me Someone Person Way

Writing has never been that simple for me.

Simple Me Writing Never Been

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

Change Father Childhood Parents Fact

I don't believe in happy families.

Happy Believe Families

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

Love Imagination Words Writing More

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

Travel Try Tribe Subtle Who Other

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