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
zines stuff way
I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.
style stories care
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.
philosophy magazines opinion
So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
brain way needs
I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
mean world mysterious
The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.
beauty believe ideas
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
trying use etc
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
dream consequence
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
fiction film enough
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.
writing islands balance
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.
forever knows
You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
worry might waste
You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
maps way firsts
The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?
reading past influence
Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.