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Geoff Dyer Quotes

English - Writer | June 5, 1958 -

Sharing a room with one person is worse than sharing with six, and sharing with six is in some ways worse than sharing with sixty.

Person Sharing Sixty Room Worse Six

The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things.

Character Things Used Essence Get

You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.

War World You Russia Whatever Read

I guess, when I left university, I liked the idea of being a writer, and I thought then that being a writer really meant that you were a novelist. But if one of the impulses for being a novelist is wanting to be a storyteller, I never had any urge to tell stories.

Thought You Never University Tell

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

War World Key Events First Pretty

First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.

Ignorance Back Late First Out May

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

Life Great Growing Up My Life House

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

People Stupid Belief British Highest

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

Think Ghetto Little Something Awful

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

Learning Writing Book Reading Doing

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.

Writing Long You Look More Capable

The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.

Changes Only The Only Thing Thing

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