I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me… — Joseph O'Neill Holiday Copy Share Image
“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to… — Joseph O'Neill Depression Copy Share Image
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 Books Copy Share Image
“Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.” — Joseph O'Neill Chaos Copy Share Image
“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't… — Joseph O'Neill Books Copy Share Image
“You know what my motto is?' I didn't think people had mottoes anymore,' I said. Think fantastic,' Chuck said. 'My motto is,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.” — Joseph O'Neill New york Copy Share Image
“I felt above all, tired. Tiredness: if there ws a constant symptom of the disease in our lives at this time, it… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in… — Joseph O'Neill Air conditioner Copy Share Image
“Like an old door, ever man past a certain age comes with historical warps and creaks of one kind or another, and… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy,… — Joseph O'Neill Education reform Copy Share Image
“I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient… — Joseph O'Neill Dead mother Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“No, it was simply that I was uninterested in making, as I saw it, a Xerox of some old emotional state. I… — Joseph O'Neill Good and bad Copy Share Image
You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is… — Joseph O'Neill America Copy Share Image
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Bicycle Copy Share Image
New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin. — Joseph O'Neill New york Copy Share Image
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance… — Joseph O'Neill Book Copy Share Image
“My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect… — Joseph O'Neill Instinct Copy Share Image
