Jeff VanderMeer Quotes

I am just the biologist; I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all o...

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live ...

I believed that it might be pulling these different impressions of itself from my mind and projectin...

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side ...

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life liv...

Think about how backstory fits the tale you're trying to tell... p.195

They’d never really been my friends; I didn’t cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my h...

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of ...

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyon...

Agency in fiction has to exist in the context of the worldview. Otherwise agency is not just meaning...

...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192

My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmare...

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a...

The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting y...

Even through the dulling effects of the pill, he wanted to be rid of his itching brain, his ignited ...

Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his t...

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

The idea that a dysfunctional thought could take root in a vacuum, the individual anonymous and wrai...

Never do something for just one reason.

Control said nothing, had said nothing for quite some time as if he didn't trust words anymore. Or h...

He was Control, and he was in control.

We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all wan...

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, ye...