Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.
PAT CONROYI prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me,
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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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When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children
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Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
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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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Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts.
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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.
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We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
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Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.
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