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My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Any Books Compromised Major Me Meaningless Minor Music Musical Reading Serious Seriously Theory Understand Way

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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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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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Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Always Another Art Art Form Books Borrowing Chapter First Form Instead Like Movement Pretension Something You

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Writers are not obliged to deal with current events, but it happens that the big story of our times - the al-Qaida attacks on New York and the Pentagon, and the subsequent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - is being told in some of the greatest books of our time.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Afghanistan Attacks Being Big Books Current Current Events Deal Events Greatest Happens Iraq New New York Obliged Our Our Time Pentagon Some Story Subsequent Time Times Wars Writers York

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'The New 52,' I was really excited that new people got to jump in on books. In particular, on 'Aqua Man.'

~Geoff Johns

Topics: Books Excited Got Jump Man New New People Particular People Really

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Aquaman has the ability to be a huge character, and I think we really brought him to a new level in comic books, and I'm hoping that new level continues to everything that is DC Entertainment. Certainly, that's the goal. He's one of our most recognizable and most important characters, and it's going to continue to stay that way.

~Geoff Johns

Topics: Ability Books Brought Certainly Character Characters Comic Comic Books Continue Entertainment Everything Goal Going He Him Hoping Huge Important Level Most New New Level Our Really Recognizable Stay Think Way I Think Dc

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There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.

~Geoff Johns

Topics: Always Arrow Became Been Best Between Books Comic Comic Books Famous Friends Green Guys Lantern Off Page Quickly Same Same Page Started Tension Then Those

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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.

~Geoff Mulgan

Topics: Books Government Lot People Read Really

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I dreamt of being an astronomer; I had a series of 'How and Why' books on the planets and the stars. At that stage, there were only 14 galaxies; now there are multiverses, dark matter, the nano-microscopic world of the interior of atomic structure.

~Geoffrey Rush

Topics: Astronomer Atomic Being Books Dark Dreamt Galaxies Had How Interior Matter Now Only Planets Series Stage Stars Structure Were Why World

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