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

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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
Journalist
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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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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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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There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
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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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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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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
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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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When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.
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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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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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The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.
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My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.
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You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.
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It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?
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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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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 had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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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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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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