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1. "My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
2. "Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
3. "Whenever I write first drafts, I like to maximize the possibility of f-ups, mistakes, mis-written words, digressions, crazy changes in tone, etc. This is why I don't use outlining software or even a computer and why I spread pages and images and research materials kinda crazy across the table. Never know what'll happen." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
4. "The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
5. "Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
6. "A sudden flash of his partner Wyte, telling him he was compromised, him replying, "I don't have an opinion on that." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
7. "But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
8. "Hellooo Pelican, come in, come in? No? Okay. You just be that way, you petulant bird." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
9. "Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
10. "Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
11. "Silence creates it's own violence." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
12. "I knew these elements were intended for me and me alone. There were no endearments, but I understood in part because of this restraint. He knew how much I hated words like love." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
13. "building," ~ Jeff VanderMeer
14. "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
15. "Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jungle fever (so cold it burned, his skin glacial), each strand of black a testament to being alive afterwards." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
16. "Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
17. "I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
18. "I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
19. "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." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
20. "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." ~ Jeff VanderMeer
21. "So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine." ~ Jeff VanderMeer

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