Jeff VanderMeer Quotes - Page 3

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• If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Guitar, Play, Instruments

  Source: www.esquire.com

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Writing, Imagination, Failing

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Watches, Burden, Bigger

  Jeff VanderMeer (2011). “Finch”, p.87, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Character, Editors, Trying

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

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Brain, Needs, Way

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Beauty, Believe, Ideas

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dream, Consequence

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• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Fiction, Film, Enough

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Ipods, Band, Type

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

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• 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.

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• My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Mother, Art, Strong

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. January 07, 2010.

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Trying, Etc, Technique

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• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Style, Stories, Care

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Forever, Knows

  Jeff VanderMeer (2014). “Acceptance: A Novel”, p.191, Macmillan

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Worry, Waste, Might

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• The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Dog, Eye, Cities

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.65, Spectra

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• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Short Love, Reading, Fiction

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• I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  World, Decided

  Jeff VanderMeer (2011). “Finch”, p.299, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Grateful, Should Have, Giving

  Jeff VanderMeer (2011). “Finch”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Soul, Fracture, Crisis

  Jeff Vandermeer (2007). “City of Saints and Madmen”, p.141, Spectra

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