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Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jeff VanderMeer
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![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-664967.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-251064.jpg)
![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 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1074556.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-883659.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: the atmosphere of the town was an artificial creation whose existence relied on the subtle attentions of its inhabitants.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-76701.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-711171.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-935778.jpg)
![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 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](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-2098137.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The words would linger, form in his mind, but never become sound, trapped between his need and his will. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: The words would linger, form in his mind, but never become sound, trapped between his need and his will.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1215374.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-841375.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1788318.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-353671.jpg)
![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? 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?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-455417.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-660377.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1716719.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-2169220.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1428516.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-2132724.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-2125902.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1470174.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-2017330.jpg)
![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 quotes: That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1989254.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1718900.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1949299.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1848542.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1822463.jpg)
![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? 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?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1799840.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: We live in a universe driven by chance," his father had said once, "but the bullshit artists all want causality.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1558484.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1715807.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-500880.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-432860.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-801286.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-278516.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-198637.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-960674.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1382220.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1231603.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1167462.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-1003732.jpg)
![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. 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-860384.jpg)
![Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you. Jeff VanderMeer quotes: You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what's left to you.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/jeff-vandermeer-quotes-859268.jpg)
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jeff VanderMeer
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jeff VanderMeer on Wise Famous Quotes.