Words matter. These are the best Jeff Vandermeer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That’s why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.
Heroes aren’t always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they’re people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.
In a sense, fictional dystopias have been a way of distracting us from the truth of our condition by placing it ‘over there.’
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.
History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.
My stepmom is one of the leading researchers on lupus in the world.
I’m a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.
Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.
I like North Florida because it’s much wilder than the rest of the state.
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn’t mean he was cruel; there’s no evidence he kicked puppies just for the fun of it. Similarly, ‘Black Mirror’ likes to examine possible dystopias, but that doesn’t mean the show is cynical enough to endorse them.
My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
An important reason that we’re in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don’t have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
There’s also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
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.
There simply aren’t enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
Cross-pollination and ‘contamination’ is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it’s a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
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.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or ‘convulsive’ beauty – beauty in the service of liberty.
I’m an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
I’m not a fan of fiction that’s totally hopeless.
Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
So many differing opinions and philosophies… are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
When you think about the complexity of our natural world – plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example – a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.
