Quotes by Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

[William] Eggleston’s photographs look like they were taken by a Martian who lost the ticket for his flight home and ended up working at a gun shop in a small town near Memphis. On the weekend he searches for the ticket – it must be somewhere – with a haphazard thoroughness that confounds established methods of investigation.

Home

Taken

Weekend

All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older – this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me – this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I’ve always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I’d be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, “God! That’s my main source of income.” So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.

Drunk

Home

Night

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

Curiosity

Ignorance

Journey

Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought – even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.

Expression

War

Writing

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

Book

Form

Style

For so long I didn’t have any kind of readership at all – I’d get published, but not read – the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it’s never bothered me.

Kind

Long

Writing

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for – to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

Mean

Trying

Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There’s a balance to be kept – the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one’s life. I’m conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money.

Balance

Conscious

Stability

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I’m bunking off from something.

Book

Ideas

Writing

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

Desire

Regret

Writing

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Aging

Ambition

And Love

Anxiety

Art

Attention

Balance

Book

Bored

Boredom

Boys

Charming

Chinese

Cia

Class

Commit

Conscious

Country

Curiosity

Desire

Different

Doe

Drunk

Economic

Errors

Events

Exhibitions

Expression

Feelings

Feels

Film

Foreign Policy

Form

Giving

Giving Up

Growing Up

Habit

Helping

Home

Hours

House

Ideas

Ignorance

Interesting

Irritation

Jobs

Journey

Kind

Leader

Levels

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Quotes by Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer

All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.

Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

For so long I didn’t have any kind of readership at all – I’d get published, but not read – the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it’s never bothered me.

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for – to try and discern what it means for foreign policy.

Getting too much money too soon can be really bad. There’s a balance to be kept – the right balance between new experience and a certain stability in one’s life. I’m conscious of all these things in a way that, earlier on, I was only conscious of circumstantial stuff, like, money.

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it’s a choice between writing a book and doing nothing I will always choose the latter. It’s only if I have an idea for two books that I choose one rather than the other. I always have to feel that I’m bunking off from something.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

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