Top 46 Quotes by Pat Conroy

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.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

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

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

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

I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

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

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

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.