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, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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