Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy was an American author known for his novels that often explore themes of family, love, and the complexities of Southern life.

"He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives."

Pat Conroy

"Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills."

Pat Conroy

"The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man."

Pat Conroy

"Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing."

Pat Conroy

"The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism."

Pat Conroy