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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 remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
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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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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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My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
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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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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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Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
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I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
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A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.
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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
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If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.
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So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
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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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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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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 love it when people want to interpret my books.
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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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