Frank Delaney

“Draped across an armchair lay his famous long black coat, empty now, and hollow with missing him.”

— Frank Delaney

“...habit of speaking in paragraphs.”

— Frank Delaney

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

— Frank Delaney

“definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies,…

— Frank Delaney

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

— Frank Delaney

The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as…

— Frank Delaney

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

I write - and then I write some more.

— Frank Delaney

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places…

— Frank Delaney

“...fair is a body pigment, that's all it is.”

— Frank Delaney

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything…

— Frank Delaney

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

— Frank Delaney

“I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.”

— Frank Delaney

If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never…

— Frank Delaney

“Guns discommode me. Their facility alarms me. Point and kill. Ruin someone's life. Remove at a finger pull deeply loved people, as…

— Frank Delaney

Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or…

— 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

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

— Frank Delaney

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

— Frank Delaney

“James left us, taking his great, informed soul with him.”

— Frank Delaney

The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.

— Frank Delaney

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

— Frank Delaney

Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.

— Frank Delaney

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

— Frank Delaney