Geoff Dyer Quotes

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay...

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be...

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ...

Have more than one idea on the go at any one time. If it's a choice between writing a book and doing...

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew ...

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, wh...

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

He was the subject of a little respectful ribbing. But he was, of course, the captain, which meant h...

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improva...

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

I always like to be in the presence of people who are good at and love their jobs, Irrespective of t...

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, ...

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this q...

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, ...

My greatest urge in life is to do nothing. It's not even an absence of motivation, a lack, for I do ...

The perfect life, the perfect lie, I realised after Christmas, is one which prevents you from doing ...

The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and...

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with...

We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the...

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered ...

In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to m...