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Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer
English Writer
Born: Jun 5, 1958
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Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction. Geoff Dyer
Book Kind Constructing Generic Like Nonfiction Fits Any Fiction Whether
We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in. Geoff Dyer
Work Art Bonus About Talk Content Nonfiction Well-Written Still Go Very Often Interested
I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.' Geoff Dyer
Great Seen More Except Times Escape Than Any Film
The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality? Geoff Dyer
Reality World Space Own Cinematic Defy Physical Laws Another Surely Wonder Landscape Gravity
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical. Geoff Dyer
You Sometimes Sense Some Something Ritual Mystical Share Because Replaced Communal
While admiring the pleasing evidence of wealth, we become complicit in - or, at the very least, recognize the extent to which we, too, are beneficiaries of - an economic system we routinely deplore. Geoff Dyer
Wealth Become Too Beneficiaries Pleasing Evidence System Recognize Complicit Admiring Economic Economic System Least Very Which While Extent
My Tarkovsky idolatry was at its peak, but 'Nostalghia' really didn't do anything for me. 'The Sacrifice' was similarly disappointing for me. Next thing we knew, he was dead. Geoff Dyer
Me Sacrifice Similarly He Knew Disappointing Dead Idolatry Anything Really Next Next Thing Peak Thing
In many ways, I was a typical young guy out of college. I was at Oxford, where every night there'd be a late showing of some great film. Geoff Dyer
Great College Young Every Late Typical Ways Great Film Out Some Guy Oxford Where Young Guy Many Showing Film Every Night Night
I was studying English, as you will, in the day, and five nights a week, I would be at the cinema. That continued throughout my 20s, which was also the 1980s - there was a lot of really good films coming out then. Geoff Dyer
Good Day You Cinema Will Films Nights Out Would Would-Be Week Throughout Studying Also Coming Continue Lot Five Which Then Really English
I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example. Geoff Dyer
Funny Example Else Besides Like For Example Ideas Lot Them Things
For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form. Geoff Dyer
Great Me Joke Extremely Idea Concentrated Form Expressed
Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I'm not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am. Geoff Dyer
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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.' Geoff Dyer
Me Tears Paradise Lost Rage Garbage Our Ruined Books Tempest More Cottage Obviously Praised Continue End Get Ended Move Wordsworth Then Many Now Near Speech
The series 'Generation Kill' is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of 'The Hurt Locker.' Geoff Dyer
Hurt Generation Else Everything Everything Else Locker Critique Structural Along Conventional Sustained Fictions Series
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.' Geoff Dyer
Writing Made Naked Reading Own Despair Constantly About Voiced Talents Dead Him His Confined Doubts
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