Pat Conroy Quotes


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.


Citations

Conroy, Pat. The Lords of Discipline. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

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Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy
  • Born: October 26, 1945
  • Died: March 4, 2016
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Donald Patrick Conroy was an American author who wrote several acclaimed novels and memoirs; his books The Water is Wide, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini were made into films, the latter two being Oscar nominated. He is recognized as a leading figure of late-20th century Southern literature.