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Jeff VanderMeer  Quotes
That’s how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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ColonizeMadnessReality
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I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or ‘convulsive’ beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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LibertyService
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But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

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Purpose
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So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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OpinionsRarelySingle
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Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn’t trust words anymore. Or had begun to cherish the answers silence gave him.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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Silence
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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.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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FictionHead
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Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity – the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through...

—Jeff VanderMeer

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FeverHairPerseverance
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There’s also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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BandsIpodType
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I looked it for shooting stars but fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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LifeOuter-SpacePhilosophy
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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...

—Jeff VanderMeer

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Mother
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I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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LifeSpaceStars
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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.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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CareStoryStyle
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Be’, dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola....

—Jeff VanderMeer

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Area-XAuthorityNew-Weird
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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.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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While
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The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wraithlike, unknowable because, especially at first, he or she had no interaction with other people. Because more and more...

—Jeff VanderMeer

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BrainwashingInternetTerrorism
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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.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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BuildCharacter
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[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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ArtbwithinBeautyDesolation
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History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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DreamingOften
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My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off...

—Jeff VanderMeer

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ApocalypseFantasyNew-Weird
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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

—Jeff VanderMeer

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