Geoff Dyer Quotes

I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.

I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

I write to feel alone.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they knew into novels; no wonder they were without friends.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.

I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.

I started dealing with my emotional pain by writing. I always had been a writer, but just not songs. Saying things on paper that I would never, ever say, and saying things to myself, admitting things to myself, about myself and my personality, just putting it on paper, is how I deal with emotional pain.

Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

When I'm not writing, I tend to get depressed and a little bit surly. And then when I'm writing, suddenly I feel enlivened. Now the only thing as I'm getting older that I notice is that it's a pattern.

Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to.

The best part of being a writer for me is immersing myself in a fictional world, which is the opposite of being on social media. At the same time, if no one ever read my work, if I was writing solely for myself, I bet it would be lonely and a lot less fun.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.

There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, "Well, so-and-so will like this," which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.

Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.