“So...I'm the funny one? I'm the funny sidekick ? . . . That's no way to talk about anyone! To say they're… — China Miéville Funny Copy Share Image
I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I… — China Mieville Ashamed Copy Share Image
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like… — China Mieville Footnote Copy Share Image
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book… — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
“ We could take his gag away , thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream . . . but then he might speak… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he… — China Miéville Feeling overwhelmed Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when… — China Mieville Child Copy Share Image
“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did… — China Miéville Democracy Copy Share Image
To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node… — China Mieville Abstract Copy Share Image
“Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One… — China Miéville Humor Copy Share Image
Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and… — China Mieville Aliens Copy Share Image
“Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers,… — China Miéville Communication Copy Share Image
In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there… — China Mieville Astronomy Copy Share Image
“...and Lublamai no longer thought of screaming but only of watching as those dark markings rolled and boiled in perfect symetry across… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and… — China Mieville Books Copy Share Image
“The boy went to the low-down part of the attic where he drew, and drew a lizard in a bottle between the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me.… — China Mieville Beautiful Copy Share Image
“My job is never boring," Staples said. "There's nuts-and-bolts stuff like getting the tarpaulin over the shaft when it rains, and so… — China Miéville Book Copy Share Image
“I've no interest in this city. I do not want to live in a curio , Johannes. This is a sideshow! This… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Outside the wind had picked up a little. Isaac sheltered his prize and walked quickly up the little alley that adjoined The… — China Miéville Child Copy Share Image
“You cannot train yourself to successfully and sustainedly unsee and unhear you do them all the time, but they also fail,… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Teafortwo was a wyrman. Barrel-chested creatures like squat birds, with thick arms like a human dwarf’s below those ugly, functional wings, the… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Lenin turned to page 2 of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. There, a short report informed of a revolution in Petrograd. Lenin, too,… — China Miéville Lenin Copy Share Image
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. — China Mieville Attention Copy Share Image
“Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
“As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.” — China Miéville Children Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked,… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.” — China Miéville Gravity Copy Share Image
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I… — China Mieville Artist Copy Share Image
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.” — China Miéville Betting Copy Share Image
“For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.” — China Miéville Politics Copy Share Image
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.” — China Miéville Persuasion Copy Share Image
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.” — China Miéville Fish Copy Share Image
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. — China Mieville Book Copy Share Image
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