"Personally I don't like it when writers become……" — China Mieville
"Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books."
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69 Quotes by China Mieville
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- Anything for gold and experience.
- While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear…
- We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you…
- Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
- The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed.…
- A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because…
- I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
- Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
- I don't like allegory.
- I love it when people want to interpret my books.
- I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
- I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
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