Pat Conroy Family Quotations

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

I don’t believe in happy families,