I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough. Frank Delaney More Quotes by Frank Delaney More Quotes From Frank Delaney We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. Frank Delaney belong us take identity To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. Frank Delaney ancestors build our understand If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. Frank Delaney your understand you man Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations. Frank Delaney kitchens just cooking conversation If you have a book, you have a friend. Frank Delaney friend you book '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 everything great perfect book Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy. Frank Delaney storytelling speech energy needs If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud. Frank Delaney great you reading work I write - and then I write some more. Frank Delaney then write more some 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. Frank Delaney good you money wisdom