I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.
Geoff DyerLife is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.
Geoff DyerI want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
Geoff DyerI think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly finished." I've got it there. And then there's that whole other phase of moving on to properly amp up the sentences and sometimes to move stuff around as well.
Geoff DyerPeople say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or something you thought didn't happen. Otherwise there'd be no need for fiction, there'd only be memoirs and histories.
Geoff Dyer