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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
