Jeff Vandermeer
Jeff Vandermeer
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" VanderMeeris an American New York Times Best Selling writer, editor, teacher, and publisher. He has won the Nebula Award, Rhysling Award, British Fantasy Award, BSFA Award, the World Fantasy Award three times, and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1968
CountryUnited States of America
thinking smartphones dumb
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
believe writing creative
I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
bedrock one-thing
The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.
book envy brain
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the lyrics count, but they go more immediately into your brain. There's so much more work you have to put in as a writer - not just with the actual book, but how it's packaged and everything.
singing ability
My singing ability is zilch.
marine biologist knows
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
character thinking issues
One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.
art lying believe
Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.
short-love reading fiction
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.
silence violence
Silence creates it's own violence.
writing important different
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.
watches burden bigger
Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
grateful should-have giving
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.
writing imagination failing
Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.