Appropriate Quote by Geoff Dyer Download Open image “Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.” — Geoff Dyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appropriate Book Books Form Style Subjects
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into… — Zoe Foster Blake Copy Share Image
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms. — Charles J. Shields Copy Share Image
“It stretches, this little trick of mine, from book to book, and everything else, comparatively, plays over the surface of it. The order, the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself. — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book. — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that… — Lynne Tillman 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
I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in… — Edwin S. Shneidman Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's… — John Edwards Copy Share Image
I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it. — Alfred Aho Copy Share Image
For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image