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
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
“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 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 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
“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.” — Joseph O'Neill Bicycle 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
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
“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
“There was another silence. I felt, above all, tired. Tiredness: if there was a constant symptom of the disease in our lives… — Joseph O'Neill Depression 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
“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 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
“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
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
“The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.” — Joseph O'Neill New york 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
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 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
