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I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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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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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.
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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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To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.
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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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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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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
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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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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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In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
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