Quotes by Jeff Vandermeer

About Jeff Vandermeer:

Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer is an American New York Times Best Selling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. He has won the Nebula Award, Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award.
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Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jung...

Jeff Vandermeer

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

Jeff Vandermeer

Affection is when we can't find any flaws in the other. Maybe I could if I really wanted to, but I don't want to, I accept you as you are.

Jeff Vandermeer

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

Jeff Vandermeer

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

Jeff Vandermeer

[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

Jeff Vandermeer

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

Jeff Vandermeer

I looked it for shooting stars but fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Jeff Vandermeer

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

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My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on ...

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The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more in the modern Internet era you ...

Jeff Vandermeer

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jeff Vandermeer

Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.

Jeff Vandermeer

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

Jeff Vandermeer

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

Jeff Vandermeer

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Jeff Vandermeer

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

Jeff Vandermeer

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Jeff Vandermeer

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

Jeff Vandermeer

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

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Author Bio

  • NameJeff Vandermeer
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 7, 1968
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Publisher; Novelist