405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

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

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

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

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.

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.

You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.