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Among the worst things about growing old is the loss of those irreplaceable friends who added richness and depth to your — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I envy the tireless intimacy of women’s friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Few people understood the exceptional role the civil rights movement had on the white boys and girls of the South. Bill — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of — Pat Conroy
The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave anything out. I have read like a man on fire my wh — Pat Conroy
The reading of great books has been a life-altering activity to me and, for better or worse, brought me singing and lang — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I don’t know when reading books became the most essential thing about me, but it happened over the years and I found mys — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
Self-destructive behaviors do not exist because there is a force within us that tries to hasten our return to an inorgan — they exist because they provide short-term relief from pain that threatens to become intolerable.
Suicide is not chosen — it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.
Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hill — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
It eases my soul that I share a house with [Cassandra King] a novelist of such rare and distinctive gifts. — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
A family is one of nature's solubles — it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.
My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resol — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
It’s the great surprise of my life that I ended up loving [my father] so much. — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I have always been attracted to male writers who can demonstrate their love and affection for women with ease, yet not d — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
She had a grocer's faith in books — they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.
A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she’s tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, bu — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
I never seemed to learn from joy — I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.
There was a time when a new deputy tried to teach Mr. Fruit about the difference between a red and a green light, but Mr — Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides
Throughout my career I’ve lived in constant fear that I wouldn’t be good enough, that I’d have nothing to say, that I’d — Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life