The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things. Geoff Dyer accustomcharacteressence Change image and share on social
The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works. Geoff Dyer bookbusinesscall Change image and share on social
My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past. Geoff Dyer burnevangelicalman Change image and share on social
We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess. Geoff Dyer artcognitionfiction share on social
When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you'd built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing. Geoff Dyer advanceauthorbig share on social
I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like. Geoff Dyer bookcharacterimagine Change image and share on social
People never read my books for the quality of the documentary value. Geoff Dyer bookdocumentarypeople Change image and share on social
It really doesn't matter if it happened exactly how I say it happened. Geoff Dyer happenmatter Change image and share on social