Pat Conroy Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Agony, Uniforms

• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Thinking, Form

• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

• 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 prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Voice, World

• My mother raised me to be a writer.

  Pat Conroy

  Mother, Writing, Raised

• Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

  Pat Conroy

  Reading, Writing, Ambition

• 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

• 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

  Writing, Light, Interesting

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.323, Random House

• 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.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Kids, Novelists

• I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Hands, Long

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Simple

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

  Pat Conroy

  Writing, Way, My Own

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