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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Because Interested Read Russia Second Second World War War Whatever World World War You

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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.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Being Guess Had Idea Impulses Left Liked Meant Never Novelist Really Stories Storyteller Tell Then Thought University Urge Wanting Were Writer You

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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Certain Events First First World First World War Heads Key Narrative Obviously Our Pretty War World World War

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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.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Back Considerable Fictional First Frank Ignorance Late May Oneself Out Pleasure Pointed Preserve Second Seizing Sole

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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Books Great Growing Growing Up House Life My Life Privileges Up Without

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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Awful Ghetto Little Oxford Something Think I Think

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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Book Doing Learning Much Person Reading Writing

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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.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: After Broad Capable Essays Fiction Limited Long Look More Non-Fiction Novelist Range Stopped Writing You

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

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Changes Locations Novels Only The Only Thing Thing

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Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Age Around Back Ball Books Chain Drag Evidence Experience Few Going Has-Been How List Lot Once Published Sold Strange Think Would-Be Writers You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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