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Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower. Didn't
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: In an emergency, save the scientists. In an emergency, save the scientists.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: He was Control, and he was in control. He was Control, and he was in control.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual. My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what? Become a type, no one saw you. Paranoid thought: What better disguise? But disguise for what?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature. Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I aimed my flashlight at the ground - and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth. I aimed my flashlight at the ground - and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle. A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course. Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Observation had always meant more to me than interaction. Observation had always meant more to me than interaction.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When Nature practices deceptions in every angle. Evolution will create a being for any niche that can be found, no matter how unlikely. When
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death. it could take days before you knew that a Vegan round was germinating inside you, and weeks before your body began to blossom into death.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants. the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information. There's nothing to this world,' he said, 'but what our senses tell us about it, and all I can do is the best I can on that information.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests. For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era. He believed a kind of fragmentation had crept into people's minds in the modern era.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The words would linger, form in his mind, but never become sound, trapped between his need and his will. The words would linger, form in his mind, but never become sound, trapped between his need and his will.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured? Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I've got ... ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it I've got ... ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman? Was he the woman with no clue where the ant was or the ant, unaware it was on the woman?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, I don't have an opinion on that. A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, I don't have an opinion on that.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: ...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192 ...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it. I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning. But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: There is always a charge, of one kind or another. * There is always a charge, of one kind or another. *
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough. Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is. You feel like if they just read the manual first ... If we had a manual, that is.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: No doubt the detour to deliver Lake had made the sheep late for an appointment. No doubt the detour to deliver Lake had made the sheep late for an appointment.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent. Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Never has a setting been so able to live without the souls traversing it. Never has a setting been so able to live without the souls traversing it.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate. In my absence, the surveyor had become a kind of frenzied serial killer of the inanimate.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: What occurs after revelation and paralysis? What occurs after revelation and paralysis?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: He that feels pure, let him cast the first stone. He that feels pure, let him cast the first stone.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true. It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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? 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?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband. They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise. Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why. You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all. Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: People who asked questions didn't necessary like being asked questions. People who asked questions didn't necessary like being asked questions.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Honesty was often just a way of being cruel. Honesty was often just a way of being cruel.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc. 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 quotes: He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment. He drank deeply from his orange juice - really drank to savor it so that for a minute or two nothing existed in the house but his enjoyment.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison paratroopers. his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison paratroopers.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart. Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy. Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy.
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. 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 quotes: You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going. You can't trust how I'll get somewhere, but you have to trust I know where I'm going. I always know where I'm going.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy, If people were not by nature insane and resistant to self-improvement or therapy,
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore. You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too. There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it. So long as you don't tell people you don't know something, they'll probably think you know it.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead? Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality. We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: We all just want to people, and none of us know what that really means. We all just want to people, and none of us know what that really means.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work. If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know. There are countless things in this vast universe that humankind does not know.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach? How many invisible, abstract incantations ruled the world beyond the Southern Reach?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task. You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Silence creates its own violence. Silence creates its own violence.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: If he'd had something to say, he should have picked up the phone a long time ago. If he'd had something to say, he should have picked up the phone a long time ago.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit. Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Accidents and acts of God don't mean a thing, unless they're followed later by acts of will. Accidents and acts of God don't mean a thing, unless they're followed later by acts of will.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Hellooo Pelican, come in, come in? No? Okay. You just be that way, you petulant bird. Hellooo Pelican, come in, come in? No? Okay. You just be that way, you petulant bird.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text. The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things. A bird can be a bat. A bat can be a piece of floating plastic bag. Way of the world. To see things as other things.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Above all, don't think, for what you think happens! Above all, don't think, for what you think happens!
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist. To paint that horrible scene, something terrible must have befallen the artist.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Never do something for just one reason. Never do something for just one reason.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads. Sometimes you had to keep things from people just so they wouldn't do the first thing that came into their heads.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thingfor the sake of other people. Sometimes you need to know when to go on to the next thing
for the sake of other people.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly. That is the tragedy of everyday life: when you are in it, you can never see your self clearly.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire. When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else. Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse." A The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse." A
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no. I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar. If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless. You may be an unintentional avatar, but you are an avatar nonetheless.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: 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. 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 quotes: What can you do when your five senses are not enough? What can you do when your five senses are not enough?
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going As Shakespeare points out, it is common for people to die. Going
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195 Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I It is a curious fact of nature that that which is in plain view is oft best hidden. I
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: He'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r. He'd said they were studying the "taywah" or "terror" of the region, even when he'd spelled it out as t-e-r-r-o-i-r.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you. You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something. If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
Jeff VanderMeer quotes: the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow,

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