Without music life is a journey through a desert.

— Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

— Pat Conroy

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

— Pat Conroy

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.

— Pat Conroy

You get a little moody sometimes, but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

— Pat Conroy

You have to pay for this view (onto which he looks while writing), so our expenses keep us pretty motivated to write. It's a vicious cycle.

— Pat Conroy

You must appreciate beauty for it to endure.

— Pat Conroy

You're going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It's the hardest role in the world.

— Pat Conroy