Quote by Jeff VanderMeer

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.

— Jeff Vandermeer

There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.

— Jeff Vandermeer

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