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If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.
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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
Journalist
Literary Critic
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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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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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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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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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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History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
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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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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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My mom is an artist and my own fiction is deeply visual.
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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 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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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 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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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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But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
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The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not a creative writing book per se.
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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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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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