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I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Boat
Boys
Universe
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I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Intimate
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If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Madness
Want
Writing
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I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Romance
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Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Book
Publication
Punishment
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Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?
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If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Cricket
Happy Man
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New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
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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.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Deception
Lying
Writing
Anyway
Lie
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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 / Novelist
Men
Cricket
Happy Man
Writing
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The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Mediums
Novel
Special
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Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Manhattan
Night
Sky
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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.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Sleeves
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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.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Book
Intimate
Romance
Writing
Love Way Feel
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It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
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I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Cricket
Loaded
Soccer
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I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Holiday
Shallow
Summer
Turkeys
Life Me My Life
Indeed
Turkey
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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.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Identity
Narrative
Shed
Term
Great Start Your
Great Your Start
Cling
Immigrant
Narratives
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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 / Novelist
America
Cricket
Preoccupation
Unspeakable
Want
Tap
Directly
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We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Logic
Serious
Wistfulness
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I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Analysing
Metaphorical
Resonance
Carefully
Imagining
Leads
Themes
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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.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Attention
Too Late
Years
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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 / Novelist
Holland
Memories
Novelists
Relation
Childhoods
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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 in Ireland again.
Joseph O'neill / Novelist
Journey
Goodbye
Ireland
Saying Goodbye
Song
Foot
Perilous
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I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.
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Awful
Loss
Outcomes
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