The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.
From Geoff Dyer
Stories don't interest me.
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing.
I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.
Writing, for me, has always been a way of not having a career.
What I've really liked doing is combining what you might call art criticism or music criticism with something that is happening in real life.
It's funny, because people always say when they meet me, having read me - or they read me, having met me - that they are struck by how the tone is pretty similar, in real life and in the books.
Generally, I'm not anti the novel.
My reading of serious books about serious music is seriously compromised by the way that I can't understand any musical theory. Any mentions of D major or C minor are meaningless to me.
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