Author: Jeff Vandermeer

Quotes

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

My parents were in the Peace Corps.

- Jeff Vandermeer

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

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

- Jeff Vandermeer

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

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

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.

- Jeff Vandermeer

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

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it 'over there.'

- Jeff Vandermeer

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