Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it." — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Nicholson Baker talks about the way in which the most successful nonfiction books are those that can be boiled down into an… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in, as a reader and as a writer, is the idea of the nonfiction book that is not… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Whatever people may say about my books - and it always amazes me when people don't like them, but sometimes they don't… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“I had read four thousand pages of letters by Lawrence and I wanted thousands of pages more... I wanted them not to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“I think the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is less about “Did it really happen or was it made up?” than it… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because what that means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
One of the reasons so many nonfiction books are so boring is because what they've done, very diligently, is fulfill the terms of their… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I really like the George Clooney of Solaris also filmed by Andrei Tarkovsky, before Steven Soderbergh: that's very obviously sci-fi, and it seems to… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things—as opposed… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels. — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
In foreign countries, when people see what Donald Trump is saying on Twitter since the election and seeing what he's saying in these calls… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“Photographers sometimes take pictures of each other; occasionally they take pictures of each other at work; more usually they take photographs - or versions… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
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… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
“We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
