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Jeff Vandermeer Inspirational Quotes (39)

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What occurs after revelation and paralysis?
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Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world around you sparking inspiration.
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Silence creates it's own violence.
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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
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I believe the best creative writing lessons live in the specifics.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.
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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 soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
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Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.
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Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
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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.
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My singing ability is zilch.
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If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.
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Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.
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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.
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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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History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
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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.
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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
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Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any one thing. I just always loved books and writing.
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