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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

~Pat Conroy

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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.

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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.

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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.

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

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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

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

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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 26th, 1945

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