Pat Conroy Quotes

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy

Life, Music, Through

Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
Pat Conroy

Industry, Challenges, Aging

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

Change, Father, Parents

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

Movies, Become, Kids

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, Enough, Die

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

Long, Write, Hand

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

Life, Learned, Between

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy

Laughter, Single, Line

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

Father, Childhood, Typing

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.
Pat Conroy

Mother, Night, Remember

Writing has never been that simple for me.
Pat Conroy

Simple, Writing

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, Someone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 26, 1945

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