Pat Conroy Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read them and they fall asleep to happy dreams for the next 10 years. If you do them the favor of understanding them, of taking in their portions of grief and wisdom, then they settle down in contented residence in your heart.

  Pat Conroy

  Dream, Lying, Grief

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Oct 15, 2013

• Red Hook Road made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Home, South Carolina

  FaceBook post by Pat Conroy from Jun 22, 2010

• Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Giving, Single Word

• My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Soul, Ease

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.229, Random House

• 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. I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I had to like that trend or go along with it. I fight against these movements with every book I write.

  Pat Conroy

  Art, Powerful, Book

• 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.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Hands, Next

• 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

• Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.40, Open Road Media

• Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Reading, Today

• Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Heart, Character

• Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrated by underlining her favorite sections with a ball-point pen. Once I had told her that I would rather see a museum bombed than a book underlined, but she dismissed my argument as mere sentimentality. She marked her books so that stunning images and ideas would not be lost to her.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Museums, Ideas

• William Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book, The Storied South , is a love song to the South Bill helped illuminate. It's a crowning achievement of his own storied career.

  Pat Conroy

  Song, Book, Careers

• I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Thinking

• My attraction to story is a ceaseless current that runs through the center of me. My inexhaustible ardor for reading seems connected to my hunger for storylines that show up in both books and in the great tumbling chaos of life.

  Pat Conroy

  Running, Book, Reading

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