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title: "4 Geek Quotes By China Miéville"
description: "4 Geek quotes by China Miéville. Plus more from China Miéville and more Geek sayings from other authors."
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> [A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/a-lot-of-geeks-are-pale-bespectacled-wear-dark-clothing-and-don-t-get/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e31/china-mi-ville-1303_clothings_a-lot-of-geeks-are-pale-bespectacled-wea_1125280.jpg)

> [I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/i-m-a-science-fiction-and-fantasy-geek/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2b/china-mi-ville-1303_fantasy_i-m-a-science-fiction-and-fantasy-geek-1_1157311.png)

> [Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/geeks-run-the-world-condoleezza-rice-is-a-geek-bill-gates-is-clearly/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27e/china-mi-ville-1303_bigs_geeks-run-the-world-condoleezza-rice-is_1990509.jpg)

> [ I feel fantastically geeky. \[But\] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/i-feel-fantastically-geeky-but-i-m-not-one-of-those-people-who-s/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/033/china-mi-ville-1303_ashamed_i-feel-fantastically-geeky-but-i-m-not-o_2937380.png)

## Other authors on Geek

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- [Sorin Suciu 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/sorin-suciu/)
- [Michael R. Underwood 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/michael-r-underwood/)
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- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simon-pegg-85502.jpg) Simon Pegg 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/geek/simon-pegg/)

## More by China Miéville

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/i-just-can-t-get-with-this-idea-that-literature-is-a-12-step-program/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/houses-built-on-bridges-are-scandals-a-bridge-wants-to-not-be-if-it/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [Remember the movements that don't look like moving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/remember-the-movements-that-don-t-look-like-moving/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/either-way-it-is-a-curio-of-the-moment-that-hard-left-advocates-of/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/it-felt-like-being-a-child-again-though-it-was-not-being-a-child-is/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/we-have-to-establish-our-credentials-as-an-explorocracy-so-to-survive/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/so-long-as-it-fated-fate-didn-t-care-what-it-fated/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“Everything's fit to be worshipped.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/everything-s-fit-to-be-worshipped/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“Death isn't what it used to be”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/death-isn-t-what-it-used-to-be/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/almanacs-or-what-was-left-of-them-when-those-pages-making-incorrect/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/there-are-no-telepaths-in-this-universe-i-think-but-there-are/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/the-poets-and-artists-and-philosophers-resistance-activists-secret/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“The city’s a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish city, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/the-city-s-a-heart-i-said-and-in-that-a-heart-and-a-city-were-sutured/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [“As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/as-he-got-older-billy-suspected-he-would-dicaprio-like-simply-become/)

[China Miéville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

> [Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/scars-are-memory-like-sutures-they-stitch-the-past-to-me/)

[China Mieville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/china-mi-ville/)

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