Quote

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

China Mieville

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
Academic
Anthropologist
Blogger
Fantasy Author
Literary Critic
Novelist
Political Scientist
Politician
Writer
Norwich
Norfolk
China Tom Miéville
China Mieville
China Tom Mieville
Surface
Hackles
Moon
Wrongness
Sense
Scraped
Soul
Unease
Long
Fraught
Uneasiness
Nails
Raising

More quotes by China Mieville

Image
Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
China Mieville
Image
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
China Mieville
Image
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
China Mieville
Image
I'm a very friendly socialist.
China Mieville
Image
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
China Mieville
Image
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville
Image
Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati.
China Mieville
Image
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China Mieville
Image
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville
Image
London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
China Mieville
Image
When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things 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.
China Mieville
Image
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.
China Mieville