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
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.
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.
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.
brain way needs
I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
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.
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.
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.
dream consequence
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
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.
giving-up coffee cat
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."
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?
world decided
I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.