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Book Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer
- 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…
- Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to any…
- 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…
- The best visual book I can think of is Lynda Barry's What It Is, but although I refer to it all the time it's not…
- I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
- 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 lyrics…
- My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood