Geoff Dyer Quotes
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.
Topics
Exploration
Adventure
Spending Money
More Than Anything
Financial Freedom
Anything Else
Breaking Tradition
Breaking the Mold
Broadening Horizons
Family Dynamics
Family Influence
Financial Anxiety
Parental Impact
Spending Habits
Stepping Out of Comfort Zone
Wanderlust
Travel Motivation
Travel Aversion
Citations
Dyer, Geoff. Interview by Christopher Bollen. The Paris Review, no. 207, Winter 2013.
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Geoff Dyer is an English writer. He has authored a number of novels and books of non-fiction, which have won literary awards and been translated into 24 languages. Kathryn Schulz, writing in New York, described him as "one of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself, and one of our most original writers".