48 Quotes by Joseph O'Neill

When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of a voice and a sensibility underpinned by an authenticity which, I think, if you're a good writer, you can extract from the specific details of your own time. I think most writers do hope that their books will be read in ten years.

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.

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

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

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.

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

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

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 one of those.

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