I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Awful 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
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends.… — Joseph O'Neill Carefully Copy Share Image
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
“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
“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
“She merely wiped the floor with paper towels and said nothing, brushing her free hand against my shoulder blade—my shoulder blade!—as she… — Joseph O'Neill Hate 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
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
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or… — Joseph O'Neill American dream Copy Share Image
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Bicycle 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
“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world,… — Joseph O'Neill Anxiety 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
“I am vertigiously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy,… — Joseph O'Neill Human race 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 Copy Share Image
If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. — Joseph O'Neill About 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
“It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in… — Joseph O'Neill Summer 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
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand,… — Joseph O'Neill Cold war Copy Share Image
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.… — Joseph O'Neill Accounts 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
