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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
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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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.
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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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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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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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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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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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Silence creates it's own violence.
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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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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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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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Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?
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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 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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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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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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My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, Don't write that, or Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.
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