One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
From Geoff Dyer
Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
The only thing that changes in my novels are the locations.
Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
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.
The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
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