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Pat Conroy Quotes

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

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

Love Unknown Books About Journeys

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

God School Me Think Heaven Worst

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Live Faith Me Loved Will Inside

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Mother Girl Imagination Me Wind

I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.

Life Mother Think Her Whole I Think

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

Life My Life Intellectual University

I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

Love College Know Young See Out

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.

God Mistakes People Writing Up Off

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Life Nature Human Nature Living Bit

There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Myself People Me Better Look Always

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Life Father Art My Life Violence

Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.

Grateful Cooking Me Remember Student

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