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List of China Mieville Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 87 inspiring quotes by China Mieville.

About China Mieville

  • Born: September 6, 1972
  • Occupation: Author
    • No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. they got into it because they love it.
    Sex Fiction Prestige
    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.
    Fiction Fantasy Weirdness
    I'll never be a minimalist. the fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. i very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
    Mean Facts Minimalist
    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.
    Cities Opposites London
    My google-fu is strong.
    Strong Google
    Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
    Sky Sitting Sun
    I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.
    Regret Cowardice Understood
    Old stories would tell how weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. for a weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. to act - to weave - was to bring about more pleasing patterns. they did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.
    Appreciation Army Men
    I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
    Book Writing Ideas
    I don't like allegory.
    Allegory
    I love it when people want to interpret my books.
    Book People Want
    I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
    Book Years Passionate
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