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My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.

China Mieville

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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
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I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
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Anything for gold and experience.
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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 it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
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I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
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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 of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.
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Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
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There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.
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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
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Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
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My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
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Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
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What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
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The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
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The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.
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