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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The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
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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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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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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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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
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Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.