Quote by China Miéville

“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people…

— China Miéville

“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,”

— China Miéville

Remember the movements that don't look like moving.

— China Mieville

“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent…

— China Miéville

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…

— China Mieville

“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.”

— China Miéville

“So long as it fated, fate didn’t care what it fated.”

— China Miéville

“Everything's fit to be worshipped.”

— China Miéville

“Death isn't what it used to be”

— China Miéville

“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.”

— China Miéville

“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing…

— China Miéville

“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”

— China Miéville