Jeff VanderMeer Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Giving Up, Coffee, Writing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Fiction, Helping

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Important, Different

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

• My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Imagination, Failing

• Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the environment. It feels a little too comfortable, because at the end of the day I can rationalize that I'm doing my share. I don't know if I actually am, I don't know if I should be more of an activist than I am. But at the end of the day, everybody needs to do those things that they're most likely to continue doing, and that aren't going to burn them out.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Environment, Bizarre

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• A dream inspiring a story is different than placing a description of a dream in a story. When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way, and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest. If you're writing something fantastical, it can be a really deadly choice because your story already has elements that can seem dreamlike.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Meaningful, Dream, Character

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Islands, Balance

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Believe, Writing, Creative

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

• 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

  Writing, Way, Mood

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

• I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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