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
marine biologist knows
If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
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.
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.