To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
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If you have a book, you have a friend.
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I write - and then I write some more.
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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.
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We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
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Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
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Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.
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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.
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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.
