Jeff VanderMeer Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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

• If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Book, Reading, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• 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

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

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Reading, Past, Influence

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• 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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