China Miéville

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

“Everything's fit to be worshipped.”

— China Miéville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

— China Mieville

My Google-fu is strong.

— China Mieville

“Death isn't what it used to be”

— China Miéville

“Everything, even the dirt, was poised.”

— China Miéville

Anything for gold and experience.

— China Mieville

“It was a very inexact apocalypse.”

— China Miéville

“The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish.”

— China Miéville

“Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.”

— China Miéville

“...terrorism could not win once the real terror went.”

— China Miéville

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

— China Mieville

“A boy ran down a hill path screaming. The boy was I.”

— China Miéville

“Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.”

— China Miéville

“Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador’s Language.”

— China Miéville

“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ”

— China Miéville

“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.”

— China Miéville

“I always stayed. I can’t say I chose to stay as I felt quite without traction, without capacity to find myself or…

— China Miéville

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do…

— China Mieville

“You told all this to the people in the town,” he said. “They said they can’t do anything because of no proof.”

— China Miéville

“Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in…

— China Miéville

No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

— China Mieville

“I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was…

— China Miéville

“It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled…

— China Miéville

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the…

— China Mieville

My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe…

— China Mieville

“My father passed me. He looked briefly at me as you might at a stump or a broken machine or anything that’s…

— China Miéville

“Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear." "Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices?" "I went for Lear," said Leon. "Partly out…

— China Miéville

“When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking for such a job.…

— China Miéville

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can…

— China Mieville

“The children from the bridge were often waiting there, eyeing me. They congregated by the stump and played a game involving motions…

— China Miéville

Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed…

— China Mieville

“Its substance was known to me. The crawling infinity of colours, the chaos of textures that went into each strand of that…

— China Miéville

“Indeed, an astoundingly small proportion of arguments ‘for free speech’ and ‘against censorship’ or ‘banning’ are, in fact, about free speech, censorship…

— China Miéville

“When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking about one sub-genre of fantastic literature. They are talking…

— China Miéville

“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.…

— China Miéville

“A plague of ennui afflicted London's many prophets. Warning signs were discarded, pamphlets pulped, megaphones thrown into cupboards. Those who could count…

— China Miéville

“On the World Fantasy Award: The award is a bust of H.P. Lovecraft, a notable author but also notorious racist. Nnedi Okorafor,…

— China Miéville

“Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of…

— China Miéville

“This had been the seat of sovereignty, and it cropped up throughout the city’s history if you knew where to look. Jack…

— China Miéville