Quotes by : Geoff Dyer

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the....

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

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a....

I'm incredibly competitive in all sports in a way that is so mystifying to my wife because she grew up....

It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be....

You know that feeling when you first arrive in a new city? However tired you are, however shattered by....

It occurred to Jeff that he had entered the vague phase of his life. He had a vague idea of things, a....

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with....

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly decent....

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where,....