Jeff Vandermeer

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.

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.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.