Quotes by Frank Delaney

About Frank Delaney:

Frank Delaney is an Irish novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of New York Times best-seller "Ireland", the non-fiction book "Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea", and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland.
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When I come out on the road of a morning, when I have had a night's sleep and perhaps a breakfast, and the sun lights a hill on the distance, a hill I know I shall walk across an hour or two thence, and it is green and silken to my eye, and the cloud...

Frank Delaney

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

Frank Delaney

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

Frank Delaney

Every pain is a lesson.

Frank Delaney

Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.

Frank Delaney

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, tha...

Frank Delaney

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

Frank Delaney

We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.

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 w...

Frank Delaney

'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

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

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 oth...

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, jailbr...

Frank Delaney

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

Frank Delaney

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Frank Delaney

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

Frank Delaney

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

Frank Delaney

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

Frank Delaney

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

Frank Delaney

If you have a book, you have a friend.

Frank Delaney

Author Bio

  • NameFrank Delaney
  • DescriptionAuthor
  • BornOctober 24, 1942
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionAuthor
  • WorksThe Celts; Goodbye, Mr. Chips