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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
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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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
Approach
Arts
Authors
BBC
Deal
Detail
Fascinating
Great
Great Deal
Hundreds
Instruction
Journalist
London
Mainly
Observed
Passing
Physically
Same
Them
Thousands
Two
Way
Work
Working
Writers
Writing
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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
Always
Betting
Everything
First
Good
Good Story
In Other Words
Irish
Kind
Know
Listen
Make
Money
Odds
Often
Other
Patterns
People
Piece
Saying
Should
Somewhere
Story
Tells
Unconscious
Wisdom
Words
You
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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
Add
BBC
Dublin
Incidents
Ireland
Life
Lived
My Life
Out
Period
Reported
Riots
Sort
Startling
Taken
Together
Troubles
Up
War
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I write - and then I write some more.
~ Frank Delaney
I Write
More
Some
Then
Write
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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
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
Ever
James
James Joyce
Joyce
Man
Multitasking
Prose
Understand
Want
You
Your
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If you have a book, you have a friend.
~ Frank Delaney
Book
Friend
You
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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
Aloud
Consider
Great
Hemingway
How
Including
Joyce
Many
Need
Never
Novelists
Oral
Piece
Proof
Reading
Relates
Submitted
Without
Work
Written
You
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Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.
~ Frank Delaney
Conversation
Conversations
Cooking
Just
Kitchens
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Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
~ Frank Delaney
Energy
In Print
Needs
Print
Speech
Storytelling
Vital
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To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
~ Frank Delaney
Ancestors
Build
Identities
Our
Reconnect
Stories
Understand
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We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
~ Frank Delaney
Ancient
Belong
Identity
Rivers
Stories
Take
Us
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Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.
~ Frank Delaney
Dislikes
Likes
Opinions
Part
Strong
Therefore
Why
Write
Writers
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Frank Delaney
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BirthDate
24 October, 1942
DeathDate
21 February, 2017
Country
Ireland
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