“Area X was all around them. Area X was contained in no one place or figure.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps only I could truly make Wick a person, by forgiving him, and if I forgave him, if I showed I forgave him, then… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“What if an infection was a message, a brightness a kind of symphony? As a defense? An odd form of communication? If so, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
What I envy about musicians is, they have this more direct relationship with the audience. They don't have to go through words. Sure, the… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“In college, what had always stuck with him in Astronomy 101 was that the first astronomers to think of points of light not as… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“But I was not a domesticated animals...The dirt and grit of a city, the unending wakefulness of it, the crowdedness, the constant light obscuring… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
Dreams, though, are just one kind of inspiration - no more or less special than something in a newspaper article or from the world… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“All of the things that wore you down, even as that was balanced by the electric feeling of being on the side of a… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share
Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“Do you think Area X builds spaceships, too? Do you think Area X traverses interstellar space? Wormholes? Think of something more subtle, something peering… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
“A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, "I don't have an opinion on that.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share
