The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
PAT CONROY
Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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You 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.
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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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Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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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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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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You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.
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We die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet.
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There are no ideas in the South, just barbecue.
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