A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville Scholar 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
“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
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? — China Mieville Being a hero Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Exploration Copy Share Image
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degraded to nothing.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.” — China Miéville Aging 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
“I took the goats downslope a bit and they screamed at each other and I screamed too to see what it was… — 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
“...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 Archaeology 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
“He had since forever been working on a book called Uncanny Blossom. When Leon had told him, Billy had said, “I had… — China Miéville Books Copy Share Image
“ Gods it's well done , she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and… — China Miéville Coming together Copy Share Image
The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke… — China Mieville Anatomy 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
“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
“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
“The southern half of Riverskin was indistinguishable from Flyside, which it adjoined. It was cheap and not too violent, crowded, mostly good-natured.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Like some waterhole in the veldt, she though unclearly, where the weak and the strong and predatory drink together in a truce:… — China Miéville Peace Copy Share Image
“When I approached and told her the key-maker wasn’t there she cursed filthily and threw something hard against the step, shouting, “What… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“utterly human moan started from him, and it grew and grew until it became a bird” — China Miéville Bird Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.” — China Miéville Metaphor Copy Share Image
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Do please,” said Captain Naphi, “expedite this journey relevance-ward.” — China Miéville Journey Copy Share Image
