Surrender to Imagination

In My Losing Season, the great Pat Conroy speaks of traveling in the South and the inspiration it can provide to a writer, of the need to harness the beauty around us, and subsequently recreate it in a way that inspires profound emotion in our readers.

“For four days I wandered the South free as a red-tailed hawk…I’d have to live deeply in moments like this, surrender myself absolutely to the duties imagination requires from a writer to make a reader cry out in rapture at the beauty of a lived-in world.”