Pat Conroy Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“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.”

“Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.”

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

“There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.”

“I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.”