Author: Geoff Dyer

Quotes

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up playing the violin and piano. I've always been like that.

- Geoff Dyer

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

- 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

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

Despite what Wordsworth says about thoughts that 'lie too deep for tears', I think tears are a pretty reliable indication of being in the grips of a profound experience.

- Geoff Dyer

I love festivals, period.

I love festivals, period.

- Geoff Dyer

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