Faulkner didn’t know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it’s necessary
PAT CONROYThe pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.
More Pat Conroy Quotes
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Tell me everything that I must know. Hold nothing back.
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Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature’s profligate generosity.
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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Good writing … 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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Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw of character; it is a catastrophe.
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I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
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I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies.
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Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.
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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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