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Irish - Novelist October 24, 1942 - February 21, 2017

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

Identity Us Belong Take

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

Understand Ancestors Build Our

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.

Life War My Life Together

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.

Work Great Writing Way

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

Strong Opinions Why Write

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

Struggle Find Some Get

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

Man You Understand Your

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

Cooking Conversation Just Kitchens

If you have a book, you have a friend.

You Book Friend

'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.

Great Book Perfect Everything

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

Energy Speech Storytelling 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.

Work You Great Reading

I write - and then I write some more.

More Some Write Then

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.

Good Wisdom Money You

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