Pat Conroy Quotes

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

I love the written word so much, I know it's gonna flow naturally.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

I've always loved rhyming. I love language.

I love writing different things.

I love playing with words and texture.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

I've always been entranced by writing.

Even as a little kid, I told lots of stories, and I wrote them down, and I loved reading fiction and fantasy.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

I was always writing. I've always been attracted to words and stories, communication.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.