“The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.” — Joseph O'Neill New york Copy Share Image
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Bicycle 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 Moon 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
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
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
“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 Looking 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 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
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
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Able 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
“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 Like Old 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 Tiredness 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 Awful Copy Share Image
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended,… — Joseph O'Neill History 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
“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
“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
“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 was sitting on the floor, my shoes stupidly pointing at the ceiling. The yelping of emergency vehicles welled up from the… — Joseph O'Neill 9-11 Copy Share Image
“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an… — Joseph O'Neill 9-11 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 Hell 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 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
Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Book Copy Share Image
Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love? — Joseph O'Neill Courage Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Books 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
“he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.” — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. — Joseph O'Neill Certainly Copy Share Image
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. — Joseph O'Neill Ifs Copy Share Image
The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium. — Joseph O'Neill Books Copy Share Image
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. — Joseph O'Neill Cricket Copy Share Image
I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so… — Joseph O'Neill About Copy Share Image
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. — Joseph O'Neill Long Copy Share Image
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get… — Joseph O'Neill Identity Copy Share Image
Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky… — Joseph O'Neill Magritte Copy Share Image
