405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the lyrics count, but they go more immediately into your brain. There's so much more work you have to put in as a writer - not just with the actual book, but how it's packaged and everything.

My singing ability is zilch.

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.

Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

Silence creates it's own violence.