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My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books. (Pat Conroy)
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been. View quote
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole. View quote
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I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell. View quote
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges. View quote
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood. View quote
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. View quote
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure. View quote
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When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year. View quote
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival. View quote
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood. (Pat Conroy)
I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee. View quote
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Writing has never been that simple for me. View quote
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I don't believe in happy families. View quote
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina. View quote
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A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater. View quote
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I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring. View quote
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Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. View quote
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I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home. View quote
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I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. View quote
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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)
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory; it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams. View quote
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What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts. View quote
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I 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. View quote
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