Pat Conroy Stories Quotations

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

A story untold could be the one that kills you.

A story is a living thing, it moves and shifts...

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.