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.

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.'

Geoff Dyer

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.

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

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

Geoff Dyer

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 But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing.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

I really like to win at sport.

I really like to win at sport.

Geoff Dyer

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

Geoff Dyer

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

Geoff Dyer

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

Geoff Dyer

What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.

What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.

Geoff Dyer

In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.

In history books, or the one about the guy who cut his hand off to get out of a canyon in Utah, you really want them to be accurate. But my stuff is such small beer by comparison.

Geoff Dyer

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