Quotes by Pat Conroy

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.' She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn't easy.

The children of warriors in our country learn the grace and caution that come from a permanent sense of estrangement.

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.

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