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

If you have a book, you have a friend.

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

First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.

From Frank Delaney

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

From Frank Delaney

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

From Frank Delaney

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.

From Frank Delaney

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.

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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.

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

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Frank Delaney

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