405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.

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.

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

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.