Best China Mieville Quotes
- In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building… Building
- Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering… Book
- I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth… Always Felt
- Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a… Act
- The dead are way more organized than the living. Dead
- It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… Been
- Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. Get Well
- Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown… Aliens
- In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.… Bad
- If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost… Able
- A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus. Died
- My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of… Air
- Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. Absurd
- Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri,… Art
- Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out… All
- Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what… Allegorical
- The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god.… Amazon
- My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. Compute
- My Google-fu is strong. Google
- Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. Asterisk
- Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. Always Obviously
- Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on. Fight
- I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice... Cowardice
- We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a… Able
- A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. Inspirational