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China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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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.
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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
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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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What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
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I'm a very friendly socialist.
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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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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
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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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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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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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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China Mieville
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
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I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
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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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A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
China Mieville
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
China Mieville
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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