Quotes by Lars Iyer

About Lars Iyer:

Lars Iyer is a British novelist and philosopher. He is best known for a trilogy of short novels: Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012), and Exodus (2013), all published by Melville House. Iyer has been shortlisted for both the Believer Book Award (Spurious, 2011) and the Goldsmiths Prize (Exodus, 2013). He has also written and published two books about Maurice Blanchot.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

Lars Iyer

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

Lars Iyer

Once, it was possible to learn things, and to be shaped by your learning, he says. Once, to be a student meant to be by what you learned. To let it enter your soul. But today? We're drowning in openness, he says. In our sense of the possible. We're r...

Lars Iyer

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

Lars Iyer

Author Bio

  • NameLars Iyer
  • DescriptionBritish novelist and philosopher
  • BornMay 2, 1970
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Writer