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I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

~Geoff Dyer

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While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Big Book Could Devote Finishing Had Happy Hate Life Middle My Life Often Really Seven Starting Them Think Which While Wish Write Writing Years I Wish

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It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be a departure from the standard idea of the form.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Book Departure Form Idea Much Name Realise Require Standard Thought Travel Worthy

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I first got a sense of that idea of nodality - but I didn't use the word back then - with 'The Missing of the Somme': that sense of a particular place in a landscape or on a map having some kind of tremendous power to draw us to itself... that made me conscious, and since then, really, it has been an abiding concern of mine.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Abide Back Been Concern Conscious Draw First Got Having Idea Itself Kind Landscape Made Map Me Mine Missing Particular Place Power Really Sense Since Some Then Tremendous Us Use Word

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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.

~Geoff Dyer

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The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

~Geoff Dyer

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Stories don't interest me.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Interest Me Stories

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I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Absolutely Am Being Bored Boredom Even Excuse Failing No Excuse Opinion Personal Propensity Sort Terrible Think Though I Think I Am

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I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.

~Geoff Dyer

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Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.

~Geoff Dyer

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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