In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
Pat ConroyThrough sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
Pat ConroyI never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
Pat ConroyFew 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.
Pat Conroy