“One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house witho...” — Geoff Dyer Quote

“One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.”

“Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'”

“I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.”

“Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.”

“So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.”

“I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!”