Tag Archives: Joseph O'Neill

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. Joseph O'Neill

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write. Joseph O'Neill

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. Joseph O'Neill

If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. Joseph O'Neill

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or any of these places which other novelists are able to write about in relation to their childhoods. Joseph O'Neill

It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot […]

You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable. 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

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you. 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. Joseph O'Neill