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China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
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While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.
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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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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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When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.
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A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.
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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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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.
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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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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
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I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
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