If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
From Frank McCourt
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.
When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced diet - what more do you need? Nobody got fat.
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine.
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd done a lot of reading on my own, so I persuaded New York University to enroll me.
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