Geoff Dyer

I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of…

— Geoff Dyer

“Sometimes I think my ability to concentrate is being nibbled away by the internet; other times I think it's being gulped down…

— Geoff Dyer

I think, about the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Fiction is not really about anything: it is what it is. But nonfiction…

— Geoff Dyer

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

— Geoff Dyer

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

— Geoff Dyer

He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the…

— Geoff Dyer

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

— Geoff Dyer

These days any self-respecting exhibition of nude photos has to have pornographically explicit images to prove that they are works of art.

— Geoff Dyer

Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder…

— Geoff Dyer

“In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the arts, music and…

— Geoff Dyer

There's always something impressive when people are giving themselves to their job absolutely. The military thing - I was conscious that their…

— Geoff Dyer

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea…

— Geoff Dyer

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl.

— Geoff Dyer

Foreign governments are going to be poring through all these Donald Trump tweets looking for - to try and discern what it…

— Geoff Dyer

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

— Geoff Dyer

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up.…

— Geoff Dyer

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety…

— 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…

— Geoff Dyer

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

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

— Geoff Dyer

Mike Pence came out and said this was a courtesy call, then Donald Trump a few hours later went on Twitter, as…

— Geoff Dyer

“At some time all cities have this feel: in London it's at five or six on a winer evening. Paris has it…

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“In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like…

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The one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of…

— Geoff Dyer

I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he…

— Geoff Dyer