Quote by China Miéville

“Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet:…

— Evangeline Walton

“There was a cold wind out on the street. It picked up the dust, whirled it about and suddenly scattered it, flinging it down…

— Vasily Grossman

“It wallowed in its water-bed; it burrowed, heaved and swung; It gnawed its way ahead with grunts and sighs; Its bill of fare was…

— Robert Service

“I landed in London on a wintry autumn evening. It was dark and raining, and I saw more fog and mud in a minute…

— Charles Dickens

“In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam…

— Damon Knight

“He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of…

— John Bellairs

“Like most policemen, Landsman sails double-hulled against tragedy, stabilized against heave and storm. It's the shallows he has to worry about, the hairline fissures,…

— Michael Chabon

“I was thinking about the rubbish, the flapping plastic in the branches, the shore-line of odd stuff caught along the fencing, and I half…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“It was a curious thing about the past--how it lay in wait for you, quietly, invisibly, almost as though it weren't there. You might…

— John Verdon

“It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it…

— Marcus Chown

“As the frosty bits dwindled the wind slowed and big snowflakes began falling as serenely as anything could fall the distance from the sky.…

— Daniel Woodrell

“He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a…

— Joan London