405 Quotes by 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.

Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.

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

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

But soon enough I banished this nonsense; some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.