Top 25 Quotes by Geoff Dyer of 58 - Page 3

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

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

Book, Style, Form

Source: www.believermag.com

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when I’ve not got anything better to do – and even then I often do nothing instead.

Geoff Dyer

Writing, Roles, Kind

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories.

Geoff Dyer

Thinking, People, Events

Geoff Dyer (2009). “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: A Novel”, p.56, Vintage

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

Geoff Dyer

Jobs, People, And Love

Geoff Dyer (2014). “Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H. W. Bush”, p.21, Canongate Books

I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

Geoff Dyer

Thinking, Boredom, Opinion

"Geoff Dyer, Journey Man". Interview with Lucas Bscher, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 28, 2012.

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

Art, Self, Exhibitions

Geoff Dyer (2012). “The Ongoing Moment: A Book About Photographs”, p.61, Canongate Books

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

Geoff Dyer

Moving, Two, Bored

"Danger! High-radiation arthouse!" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.