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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
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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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It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.
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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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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
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I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
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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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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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