Quotes from Jeff Vandermeer

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.

'Borne,' in a weird way, even though it's a totally different universe, picks up where the 'Southern Reach Trilogy' leaves off, because it's post-apocalyptic.

South Florida, Central Florida, and North Florida could never be mistaken for each other. Each has its quirks and attractions.

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.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

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

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

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 best work.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.