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Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

Jeff Vandermeer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1968

Topics

Christian Atheist Agnostic Imagery

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Funny Used Everybody Thinks Really

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Blessed Doing Liking Like

I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around.

Fun Doing Long Flexible Legs Out

Well, I don't think I'll ever stop being frustrated or feel fulfilled artistically.

Think Feel Stop Being Well Ever

I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.

Good Best Quality College World Try

At Eventbrite, we value quality results over everything else. So while working late is acknowledged, at the end of the day, I care more about the results you're producing.

Quality Day Value End Of The Day End

I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.

Jonathan Levine

Back Bus Movie Every Cameo

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

Good Side Pretty Playing Guys Were

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

Donatella Versace

Time Fashion Thought Interesting

I have no particular reader in mind, but a passionate desire to tell an honest, moving story.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Mind Moving Story Desire Passionate

It's a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they're different. It's very limiting.

People Think Feel Tragedy Way Up

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

Positive Happiness Time Balance Loss

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