Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
First
Rocks
Long
Fire
Narrate
Like
Since
Banged
People
Stars
Wondered
Light
Lights
Together
Disappear
Wanted
Firsts
Turned
More quotes by China Mieville
Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
China Mieville
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
China Mieville
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
China Mieville
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China Mieville
I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.
China Mieville
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.
China Mieville
So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
China Mieville
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
China Mieville
I love it when people want to interpret my books.
China Mieville
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.
China Mieville
My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
China Mieville
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
China Mieville
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.
China Mieville
The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.
China Mieville
My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.
China Mieville
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
Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
China Mieville
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
China Mieville
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
China Mieville