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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
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Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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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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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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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
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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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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.
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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.
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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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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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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.
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I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
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Silence creates it's own violence.
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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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I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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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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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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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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My singing ability is zilch.
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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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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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