Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to perยญseverance.
Geoff DyerTo be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.
Geoff DyerWhatever people may say about my books - and it always amazes me when people don't like them, but sometimes they don't - the epigraphs have always been top-drawer. I think having that at the outset protects me from a lot of potential problems.
Geoff DyerThe one thing that you can say about the new Cabinet Donald Trump is putting together. That seems to be one of the coherent themes. They're very, very skeptical about Iran.
Geoff DyerI always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense.
Geoff DyerIn my 30s I used to go to the gym even though I hated it. The purpose of going to the gym was to postpone the day when I would stop going. That's what writing is to me: a way of postponing the day when I won't do it any more, the day when I will sink into a depression so profound it will be indistinguishable from perfect bliss.
Geoff Dyer