Pat Conroy Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Night, Daddy

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.144, Nan A. Talese

• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave

  Pat Conroy

  Teacher, Literature, World

  Pat Conroy (2016). “A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life”, p.161, Nan A. Talese

• 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.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Generosity, Forever

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