If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. - Joseph O'Neill
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
- Joseph O'Neill
Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late… - Joseph O'Neill
Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late…
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. - Joseph O'Neill
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. - Joseph O'Neill
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakab… - Joseph O'Neill
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakab…
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. - Joseph O'Neill
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. - Joseph O'Neill
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
I was just a boy on a boat in the universe. - Joseph O'Neill
I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes we… - Joseph O'Neill
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes we…
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