Jeff VanderMeer

“The only solution to the environment is neglect, which requires our collapse.” A”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Cultural indigestion, I tell you, the gripe in the bowels of your spirit.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

— Jeff VanderMeer

“The voices of the women had the especially sweet and rapturous charm of a gentle stroke passing over the surface of one’s…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“He had not expected any of it to be beautiful, but it was beautiful.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“ This machine or creature or some combination of both that can manipulate molecules, that can store energy where it will, that…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Among all the impossible things he had already witnessed, what were a few more?”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Silence creates its own violence.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

I like North Florida because it's much wilder than the rest of the state.

— Jeff Vandermeer

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Soon after, there comes the crunch of boots, and, disoriented, you shout, ‘Annihilation! Annihilation!”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“He made no distinction between pornography and science fiction, often wondering out loud why they confiscated the one and not the other.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“surely by now you realize that you can’t trust anyone. But why not take a chance?’ *”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“But he didn’t tell her and she didn’t tell him, and if it guessed their secrets, it kept silent. He”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“There’s three ways not to see what you don’t want to,’ she told me. ‘One is the coward’s way and too damned…

— Jeff VanderMeer

We should feel an urgency about our environment and what's been done to it by human action and inaction. I wouldn't say…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and…

— Jeff VanderMeer

If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.

— Jeff VanderMeer

“And man is the greatest killer, the greatest hunter of them all. The whole world of nature knows man for the irresistible…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Early on, I had thought Wick was reaching for a body across the bed. But, for a long time, he had been…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“the idea that somehow any of that will keep out the darkness, keep out the thoughts that churn through your head—the cold…

— Jeff VanderMeer

“He was also, according to his file, “a first-rate scientist partial to beer,” the kind of mind Control had seen before. It…

— Jeff VanderMeer