Geoff Dyer Quotes

I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterBookShortPersonNever

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

John C. Reilly

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There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

Jennifer Egan

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Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

Jeanette Winterson

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As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract attention away from this administration's dismal record. The attack they have launched against Mitt Romney shows just how worried they are about facing him in the general election.

Jeb Bradley

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I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.

Michael Heizer

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I used to be weak - as did all British fighters - with wrestling, because we don't have high school wrestling or college wrestling here.

Michael Bisping

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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

John Yoo

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For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story.

Stephen R. George

StorySellingAnythingIdeaOutline

I'm always the person that is DJing spaces and moments. I'm crazy about music.

Stana Katic

MusicCrazyMomentsPersonAlways

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Stuart Symington

ProblemsYouBackKnowBelieving

We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that's my definition of Belgium.

Stromae

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Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

Shirley Chisholm

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