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> [“Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find out. If you can't find out you bloody well make it up and then you make it so.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/china-mi-ville/your-job-is-to-get-villains-right-you-ll-have-to-know-what-to-do-if/)

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

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## 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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