China Miéville

My Google-fu is strong.

— China Mieville

“Death isn't what it used to be”

— China Miéville

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

— China Mieville

“Everything's fit to be worshipped.”

— China Miéville

“staggering out of Language, into language”

— China Miéville

I'm a very friendly socialist.

— China Mieville

“Art Nouveau was coil-envy.”

— China Miéville

“Easiest way is to bend over and say ‘car.”

— China Miéville

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

— China Mieville

A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

— China Mieville

I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.

— China Mieville

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

— China Mieville

“Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.”

— China Miéville

“I didn’t tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.”

— China Miéville

“So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.”

— China Miéville

“They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.”

— China Miéville

“I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last…

— China Miéville

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

“There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears”

— China Miéville

“Well, sometimes," Dane said, "Just because someone uses something wrong doesn't mean it's useless.”

— China Miéville

“There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.”

— China Miéville

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

— China Mieville

“Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.”

— China Miéville

“The city’s a heart, I said, and in that a heart and a city were sutured into a third thing, a heartish…

— China Miéville

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke…

— China Mieville

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste…

— China Mieville

“...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her doctorate in Folklore or…

— China Miéville

“He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, “I had…

— China Miéville

“ Gods it's well done , she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and…

— China Miéville

“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

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by…

— China Mieville

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

“There was a time when wen we did not form all our words as we do now, in writing on a page.…

— China Miéville

“I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else?" Shook his…

— China Miéville

“The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […] Their language is organised noise, like all of ours are, but for them each…

— China Miéville

“And I who months before had run into town screaming my accusation was shy to say it now that I was asked…

— China Miéville

“[...]i’m not a leftist trying to smuggle in my evil message by the nefarious means of fantasy novels. I’m a science fiction…

— China Miéville

Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against…

— China Mieville

“There was one panicked moment. He picked a book from the wall, and the shapes inside, all the letters, were friends to…

— China Miéville

“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of bookshelves. There was motion below her. There were people on the…

— China Miéville