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Geoff Dyer Quotes

What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: June 5, 1958

Topics

Book Kind Fiction Nonfiction Like

When people ask me, 'What do you do for fun?' - it's my family. That's it.

Family Fun People Me You Ask

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

Good Actor Pretty Theater Supposed

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.

Matthew McConaughey

Name Someone Want Kid Over Jeans

If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.

Stephen Graham Jones

Good Past Chance Story Present You

I grew up in Somerset in southwest England.

Up Southwest England Grew

About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you don't have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.

Great Time Basketball Game Think

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

Eyes Pain Night Song Down Play

If you had asked me when I was in Yale, I would tell you I never would have thought it would happen because I just didn't think of myself of having the Hollywood look.

Myself Me Think Thought You Look

Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.

Today Internet Ownership Whatever

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Nature Mind You Never Study Highest

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

Jonathan Winters

Impossible Nothing Others Things

'This guy's a clown! He's just all talk!' I've heard that many times in my career. And then they're sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

Career Sleeping Talk Clown Middle

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