When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to lo…

- Jeff Vandermeer

I find myself in this bizarre position in which everything I write and talk about is pretty much about this issue, the environment. It feels a little…

- Jeff Vandermeer

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, …

- Jeff Vandermeer

But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?

- Jeff Vandermeer

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

- Jeff Vandermeer

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

Silence creates it's own violence.

- Jeff Vandermeer

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great lit…

- Jeff Vandermeer

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then …

- Jeff Vandermeer