# Quote — Pat Conroy, The Pat Conroy Cookbook

> Stories have always hunted me down, jumped out at me from the shadows, stalked me and sought me out, grabbed me by the shirtsleeves, and demanded my full attention. I’ve led a life chock-full of stories, and I know now that you have to be shifty and vigilant and ready to receive their incoming fire.

- Author: [Pat Conroy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy.md)
- Book: [The Pat Conroy Cookbook](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook.md)
- Page: 89
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pat_Conroy#The_Pat_Conroy_Cookbook:_Recipes_of_My_Life_(2004)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook/stories-have-always

## More from this book

> Home is a damaged word, bruisable as fruit, in the cruel glossaries of the language I choose to describe the long, fearful march of my childhood.

p. 45 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook/home-is-a-damaged.md)

> My passion for eating springs from a childhood not deprived of food but deprived of good food.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/pat-conroy/the-pat-conroy-cookbook/my-passion-for.md)