Best China Mieville Sayings
- I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. Agree
- I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid. Funny
- The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape. Escape
- A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. Challenge
- Remember the movements that don't look like moving. Like Moving
- The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. Behind
- Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy… All
- I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god. Caper
- Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. Me
- Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me. Anymore
- A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. Fraught
- In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized.… Algae
- For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities… Action
- It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about… Child
- Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? Childish
- We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge Creative
- ...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? Always Destined
- I love monsters. Love
- My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which… Banyan