We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge — China Mieville Creative Copy Share Image
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville Scholar Copy Share Image
“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.” — China Miéville Bewildered Copy Share Image
“They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.” — China Miéville Time Copy Share Image
I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god. — China Mieville Capers Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.” — China Miéville Aging Copy Share Image
“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of… — China Miéville Advisor Copy Share Image
“I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so… — China Mieville Cities Copy Share Image
“The city’s a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. — China Mieville Get well Copy Share Image
People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there… — China Mieville Astronomy Copy Share Image
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that… — China Miéville History Copy Share Image
“I don’t generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out… — China Miéville Exaggeration Copy Share Image
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“...and Lublamai no longer thought of screaming but only of watching as those dark markings rolled and boiled in perfect symetry across… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so… — China Miéville Liars Copy Share Image
“the second book’s for readers, he said. But you can’t know when they’ll come, if they do. It’s the book for telling:… — China Miéville Book Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say… — China Miéville Accountability Copy Share Image
“The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […] Their language is organised noise, like all of ours are, but for them each… — China Miéville Spirituality Copy Share Image
“I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else?" Shook his… — China Miéville Faith Copy Share Image
“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page.… — China Miéville Time Copy Share Image
“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus. — China Mieville Fungi Copy Share Image
![“The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […] Their language is organised noise, like all of ours are, but for them each word is a funnel. Where to us each word means something, to the Hosts, each is an opening. A door, through which the thought of that referent, the thought itself that reached…” quote by China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/feb/china-mi-ville-1303_spirituality_the-sounds-aren-t-where-the-meaning-live_2090127.jpg)
