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We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Ancient Belong Identity Rivers Stories Take Us

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To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Ancestors Build Identities Our Reconnect Stories Understand

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Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Conversation Conversations Cooking Just Kitchens

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'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Bach Book Come Ever Everything Fitzgerald Great Great Gatsby Manner Most Moves Mozart Novel Out Perfect Piece Remains Scott Should States United United States

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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Add Dublin Incidents Ireland Life Lived My Life Out Period Reported Riots Sort Startling Taken Together Troubles Up War Bbc

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As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Approach Arts Authors Deal Detail Fascinating Great Great Deal Hundreds Instruction Journalist London Mainly Observed Passing Physically Same Them Thousands Two Way Work Working Writers Writing Bbc

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Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Dislikes Likes Opinions Part Strong Therefore Why Write Writers

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I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Find Get Interested Kind Pulse Some Started Struggle Subject Which

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If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Ever James Joyce Man Prose Understand Want You Your

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If you have a book, you have a friend.

~Frank Delaney

Topics: Book Friend You

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: October 24th, 1942

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