“We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all want causality.” — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven’t changed instead.” A warning from his mother,… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“It was what my mother said sometimes-to be mindful that the universe beyond still existed, that we did not know what lived… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong with asking questions?” “Nothing.” Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I was trying to break out of my skin, thinking about how my parents had been actors in roles and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“Once, it was different. Once, people had homes and parents and went to schools. Cities existed within countries and those countries had… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time. — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
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 Image
