I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.
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
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.
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
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
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.
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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