It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
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
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.
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…
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.
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. - Joseph O'Neill
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
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…
Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love? - Joseph O'Neill
Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. - Joseph O'Neill
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
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