Geoff Dyer Quotes

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, except Alistair MacLean and Michael Moorcock - the sword and sorcery novels - when I was about 13 or 14.

Geoff Dyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SwordAnythingReadMuchExcept

You go into any recording studio in the world, and you see candles, lights, and that Apple light from a Mac.

Jimmy Iovine

LightWorldYouAppleLightsGo

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

TimeEarlyCareerNothingOpening

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Steve Lacy

AloneTryingNobodyKnowFirst

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

WordsPoetryIdeasYouPoemMake

I'm delighted the world is becoming more mentally literate. A few decades ago, if you mentioned the word 'brain,' no one was interested. Now, nearly every magazine on the planet is featuring the brain. One of my original goals, on one level, was to make myself unnecessary.

Tony Buzan

GoalsMyselfBrainWorldYouNow

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

Tom Shales

SpaceLovedBackTelevisionBornHe

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

Judy Blume

PeopleWantWillNeedAlways

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

Douglas Kennedy

LifeKeyPotentialHumanExistence

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

Dean Rusk

CowMilkMoreOldUnitedJust

I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.

Claire Tomalin

LifeMoneyLunchSmallBookNothing

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

Chuck D

MusicCultureDJAttentionYouRock

If you sing honestly and sincerely to kids, they will respond with all their hearts.

Susannah McCorkle

YouWillRespondHeartsSingKids

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