If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man. Frank Delaney More Quotes by Frank Delaney More Quotes From Frank Delaney We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence. Frank Delaney colordramamemories We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there. Frank Delaney belongustakeidentity To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities. Frank Delaney ancestorsbuildourunderstand Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations. Frank Delaney kitchensjustcookingconversation If you have a book, you have a friend. Frank Delaney friendyoubook '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 everythinggreatperfectbook Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy. Frank Delaney storytellingspeechenergyneeds 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 greatyoureadingwork I write - and then I write some more. Frank Delaney thenwritemoresome 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 goodyoumoneywisdom
