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I love it when people want to interpret my books.
China Mieville
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China Mieville
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: September 6
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Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
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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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London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
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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.
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The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
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I'm a very friendly socialist.
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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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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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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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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
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A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.
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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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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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