“As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.” — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
“Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too,… — China Miéville Lenin Copy Share Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville Attention Copy Share Image
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book… — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like… — China Mieville Footnote Copy Share Image
“ We could take his gag away , thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream . . . but then he might speak… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“A Kedis troika approached afterward, colourcells winking in their frills, and the shemale speaker thanked him in her curious diction, shaking his… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid—the thought of getting their alembics on which made the… — China Miéville Giant squid Copy Share Image
If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Imagine if one of them were turned. Imagine if one could be bought.' 'But they're chosen just so's they can't be bought...'… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more… — China Mieville Art Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit,” Wyatt said. I blinked. “This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The southern half of Riverskin was indistinguishable from Flyside, which it adjoined. It was cheap and not too violent, crowded, mostly good-natured.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, “What… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Like some waterhole in the veldt, she though unclearly, where the weak and the strong and predatory drink together in a truce:… — China Miéville Peace Copy Share Image
“We cannot see the universe. We are in the darkness of a trench, a deep cut, dark water heavier than earth, presences… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Časový golem povstal a byl, ignoroval linearitu kolem sebe, pouze byl. Byl narušením, strašlivým proniknutím do sledu okamžiků, sraženinou v diachronii, která… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an… — China Mieville Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're… — China Miéville Funny Copy Share Image
I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I… — China Mieville Ashamed Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when… — China Mieville Child Copy Share Image
“Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he… — China Miéville Feeling overwhelmed Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The revolutionaries want a new country in a new world, one they cannot see but believe they can build. And they believe… — China Miéville October Copy Share Image
“I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've thought of him like that… — China Miéville Civil servants Copy Share Image
“My father didn’t look at me. He dropped more stones upon a random-looking cairn. The townspeople were slow to get out of… — China Miéville Parenting Copy Share Image
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several… — China Mieville Action Copy Share Image
“On the hill we used a different, vaguer calendar than the one I’ve since learned. The seasons ours described—summer, dimming, and winter—were… — China Miéville Season Copy Share Image
“ I do not dream , der Grimnebulin. I am a calculating machine that has calculated how to think. I do not… — China Miéville Computers Copy Share Image
While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“His manager taught him that words change with time, by single letters or more, sometimes their whole roots switching—a “y” to an… — China Miéville Language Copy Share Image
“Isaac liked the idea of an inter-aspectual entity so enamored with knowledge that it just roamed from realm to realm in a… — China Miéville Enamored Copy Share Image
“But the powerful and respected party right, particularly Stalin, went so far in the direction of moderation as to support a merger… — China Miéville October revolution Copy Share Image
“If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with… — China Miéville Language Copy Share Image
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