There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
PAT CONROYYou do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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It’s impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky’ is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.
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Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.
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The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn’t know how to ask.
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In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
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South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.
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I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.
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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.
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Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it’s afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
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