156 Quotes by Geoff Dyer

One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.

Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.

I think that if you are a resolute, unswerving atheist, you have that sense that you are conscious of the God-shaped hole that has been left in the wake of any religious belief, and in a way, one is much more drawn to articulate why it is that certain places, or certain experiences, have a kind of power.

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.

The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.

In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.