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
revelations paralysis
What occurs after revelation and paralysis?
character editors trying
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.
world decided
I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
book reading writing
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.
literature world born
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?
soul fracture crisis
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.
dog eye cities
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.
writing fiction helping
I have to have music as a soundtrack to writing fiction. I listen to it at other times, too, but it helps me write.
what-if purpose invisible
But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
mother art strong
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.
writing way mood
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.
dream inspiration special
Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.
ipods band type
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
reality trying world
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.