“This first book’s for everyone, though almost no one wants it or would know how to read it.” — China Miéville 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 Copy Share Image
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 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 Copy Share Image
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville 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 Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville 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
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and… — China Mieville 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 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 Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“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 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 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 Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to… — China Miéville 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 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 Copy Share Image
“My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville 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 no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville 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 we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville 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
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
![“[…] detective novels are not novels of detection, still less of revelation, still less of solution. Those are all necessary, but not only are they insufficient, but they are in certain ways regrettable. These are novels of potentiality. Quantum narratives. Their power isn’t in their final acts…” quote by China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/377/china-mi-ville-1303_books_detective-novels-are-not-novels-of-detec_417611.jpg)
