Geoff Dyer : (5)

" 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

" When I started writing, the deal was that publishers gave you a grand or two as an advance to buy some sweets, with the promise that they would make a big putsch with your fourth book when you’d built up a bit of a following. But by the time my fourth book came out, previously unpublished authors were the new big thing. " - Geoff Dyer

" I remember being interviewed about my first novel, ‘The Colour of Memory.’ They kept using the expression ‘your first novel,’ and I said, ‘No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.’ " - Geoff Dyer

" The series ‘Generation Kill’ is, along with everything else, a sustained critique of the structural and conventional fictions of ‘The Hurt Locker.’ " - Geoff Dyer

" Now, instead of loading up your jalopy and heading for California, you take a second, badly paid job; ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ has turned into ‘Nickel and Dimed.’ " - Geoff Dyer