China Mieville Quotes

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• Anything for gold and experience. Experience
• While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string… Agree
• We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… Attention
• Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. Attention
• The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day… Anatomy
• A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true.… Bespectacled
• I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. Book
• Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. Abandoned
• I don't like allegory. Allegory
• I love it when people want to interpret my books. Book
• I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. Book
• I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. Bad
• I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. Became
• I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. Fantasy
• I'm a very friendly socialist. Friendly
• In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. Book
• Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. Become Excessively
• 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 like lots of… Any
• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at… All
• But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about… Book

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