Geoff Dyer Quotes

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

I am thinking about those things now. More so than all my friends - they're a lot older than me, but they're not even thinking about babies.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I haven't got any kids yet and it is something I need to address. I'm sure that, God willing, that'll be the next and most fabulous episode of my little life.

I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.

For a long time, I wanted children. When I was about 30 or 32, I really thought about it.

In the future, I want to have children.

Have kids; have a lot of kids. Start early and keep having them.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I hope that I'll be able to have kids with a mate. But I don't know if that's in the plan.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

I don't see any reason why I couldn't have a child when I'm 40.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

It's very easy to keep putting off having a family if you enjoy your job, but you just have to get on with life.

I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.

Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.

Listen, I had two kids - one when I was 40, one when I was 45. I breastfed for one year, which means I was breastfeeding four years ago. I'm going to move from giving birth to menopause without really realising.

I've always thought I'd like to have my first kid when I'm 30.

Later in life there should not be any regrets. Sometimes you have children too early and regret it, 'If I wouldn't have, my career would have been different' and sometimes when you don't have, you miss that opportunity.