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I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
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My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
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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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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
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I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.
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I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
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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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Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.
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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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