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 Copy Share Image
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
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same… — 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
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 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
“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