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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.

Jeff VanderMeer

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Jeff VanderMeer
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 7
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Scott VanderMeer
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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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Trust your imagination. Don't be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.
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I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it
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I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.
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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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