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Reading Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer
- My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave…
- 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…
- 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.
- Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.
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