Top 14 Quotes by Joseph O'Neill

About Joseph O'Neill

These are some quotes by Irish author Joseph O'Neill Novelist, who was born in 1964.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Joseph O'Neill

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