“History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.” — China Miéville Bewildered Copy Share Image
Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“ Get back to work , he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. ” — China Miéville Applied science Copy Share Image
“The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of… — China Miéville Advisor Copy Share Image
“Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. — China Mieville Get well Copy Share Image
“There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise that the impossible is true, attempting to undermine expectations.” — China Miéville Beauty Copy Share Image
No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. — China Mieville Fiction Copy Share Image
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might… — China Mieville Consciousness Copy Share Image
“Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to find… — China Miéville Character Copy Share Image
I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much… — China Mieville Awareness Copy Share Image
“And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid—the thought of getting their alembics on which made the… — China Miéville Giant squid Copy Share Image
“A Kedis troika approached afterward, colourcells winking in their frills, and the shemale speaker thanked him in her curious diction, shaking his… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Bellis gasped. Everywhere lights where suspended. Globes of cold illumination like frost moons, with no trace of the sepia of the New… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“So many truths have been kept from me. This violent, pointless voyage has been sopping with blood. I feel thick and sick… — China Miéville Manipulation 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 Book Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a distinction between having the legal right to say… — China Miéville Accountability Copy Share Image
“A plague of ennui afflicted London's many prophets. Warning signs were discarded, pamphlets pulped, megaphones thrown into cupboards. Those who could count… — China Miéville Sentience 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 Books Copy Share Image
“Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of… — China Miéville First met Copy Share Image
“This had been the seat of sovereignty, and it cropped up throughout the city’s history if you knew where to look. Jack… — China Miéville History Copy Share Image
“Was it that these particular occult streets had been made, then hidden? Their names leaked as traps in an elaborate double-bluff, so… — China Miéville Liars Copy Share Image
“Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador’s Language.” — China Miéville Addicts Copy Share Image
“Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge — China Mieville Creative Copy Share Image
