Top 92 Quotes by Geoff Dyer

About Geoff Dyer

These are some quotes by English author Geoff Dyer Writer, who was born on June 5, 1958.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

Geoff Dyer

Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.

Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.

Geoff Dyer

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

Geoff Dyer

In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

Geoff Dyer

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

Geoff Dyer

I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

Geoff Dyer

Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

Geoff Dyer

I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

Geoff Dyer

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

Geoff Dyer

I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

Geoff Dyer

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