I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I… — China Mieville Artist Copy Share Image
“Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyre because it is a… — China Miéville Classics Copy Share Image
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville Book Copy Share Image
“And even if you’re right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring at them,” I… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
“The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.” — China Miéville Creepers Copy Share Image
“He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, “I had… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
“...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or… — China Miéville Archaeology Copy Share Image
I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke… — China Mieville Anatomy Copy Share Image
“A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins. It has been given many names. Each inlet and… — China Miéville Awesomeness Copy Share Image
“Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find… — China Miéville Character Copy Share Image
“What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might… — China Mieville Consciousness Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Awareness Copy Share Image
“Because it is the triumph of a lack of planning –both for good and bad. It's chaos –and whether you say that… — China Miéville Chaos Copy Share Image
“[…] detective novels are not novels of detection, still less of revelation, still less of solution. Those are all necessary, but not… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you… — China Mieville Attention Copy Share Image
“Palgolak was a god of knowledge. ... He was an amiable, pleasant deity, a sage whose existence was entirely devoted to the… — China Mieville Life Copy Share Image
“The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints and… — China Miéville Kraken Copy Share Image
“London was a graveyard haunted by dead faiths. A city and a landscape. A market laid on feudalisms. Gathering and hunting, little… — China Miéville Investing Copy Share Image
“The early days of revolution were remarkable for how submerged and scattered that hard right was. Most of its high-profile figures had… — China Miéville October revolution Copy Share Image
We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. — China Mieville Challenge Copy Share Image
“If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end… — China Miéville Humour Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Art Copy Share Image
“Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside… — China Miéville Crisis Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.” — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. — China Mieville Absurd Copy Share Image
“He said, You’ll write it not because there’s no possibility it’ll be found but because it costs too much to not write… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to… — China Miéville Prophets Copy Share Image
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give. — China Mieville Books Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... — China Mieville Cowardice Copy Share Image
“They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.” — China Miéville Guns Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
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