Joseph O'Neill Quotes
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Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
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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.
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The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
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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.
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I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
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Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
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Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often too late, that an undertow of weeks or of years has pulled you deep into trouble.
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Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.