American - Writer | July 7, 1968 -
There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.
Jeff Vandermeer
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The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
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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 the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently.
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My parents were in the Peace Corps.
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My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
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My stepmom is one of the leading researchers on lupus in the world.
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When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.
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Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
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Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.
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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
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An important reason that we're in the trouble we are in with climate change is that we don't have a handle on our environment. We form public policy based on information that is wrong.
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There simply aren't enough constitutional safeguards in place to protect against a rogue president.
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