I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

- Geoff Dyer

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

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.

- Geoff Dyer

I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'

- Geoff Dyer

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

- Geoff Dyer

I've always had this belief that you want to write about universal truths.

- Geoff Dyer

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion.

- Geoff Dyer

I really like to win at sport.

- Geoff Dyer

I love festivals, period.

- Geoff Dyer

I like things that are funny and have a lot else in them besides that - ideas, for example.

- Geoff Dyer

I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

- Geoff Dyer

As soon as I hear that there's something to get used to, I know that I won't; I sort of pledge myself to not getting used to it.

- Geoff Dyer

I do understand my limitations as a fiction writer, which is why my novels are always going to be close to home.

- Geoff Dyer

I didn't get on a plane until I was 23, after I left Oxford and was teaching at Lucy Clayton Secretarial College in London.

- Geoff Dyer

I could never write a book where the point-of-view character was a short person, because I just can't imagine what that's like.

- Geoff Dyer

Generally, I'm not anti the novel.

- Geoff Dyer

For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.

- Geoff Dyer

For me, a great joke is an idea expressed in extremely concentrated form.

- Geoff Dyer

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

- Geoff Dyer

Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.

- Geoff Dyer