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China Mieville quotes: ...terrorism could not win once the real terror went. ...terrorism could not win once the real terror went.
China Mieville quotes: A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
China Mieville quotes: No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it. No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.
China Mieville quotes: I don't like allegory. I don't like allegory.
China Mieville quotes: Remember the movements that don't look like moving. Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
China Mieville quotes: In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things. In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.
China Mieville quotes: Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked. Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked.
China Mieville quotes: There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings. There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
China Mieville quotes: That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon. That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.
China Mieville quotes: There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing thoughts. There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing thoughts.
China Mieville quotes: Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone Come on then," Deeba said. "We haven't got time to waste. You're not the ones who are going to get forgot in a few days' time if you don't phone home.
China Mieville quotes: I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
China Mieville quotes: As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child. As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.
China Mieville quotes: A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge. A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
China Mieville quotes: They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them. They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them.
China Mieville quotes: A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
China Mieville quotes: I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. I want to be a metaphor. I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. I want to be a metaphor.
China Mieville quotes: Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few. Sometimes I'd go to his house. If I had some cool cards in my pack of Iceberg Updates, we'd compare collections, maybe swap a few.
China Mieville quotes: Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish. Anxieties and controversies were now as clearly traceable through it as woodgrain through varnish.
China Mieville quotes: My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
China Mieville quotes: Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne. Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.
China Mieville quotes: I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ... I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ...
China Mieville quotes: I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore. I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.
China Mieville quotes: You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it. You'd have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.
China Mieville quotes: In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
China Mieville quotes: UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on? UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?
China Mieville quotes: Anything for gold and experience. Anything for gold and experience.
China Mieville quotes: This gentleman is cactus," said Doul. This gentleman is cactus," said Doul.
China Mieville quotes: Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent. Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.
China Mieville quotes: I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
China Mieville quotes: I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid. I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
China Mieville quotes: I'm a very friendly socialist. I'm a very friendly socialist.
China Mieville quotes: Same weather over here as back home," I said. Same weather over here as back home," I said.
China Mieville quotes: There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears
China Mieville quotes: When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty. When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty.
China Mieville quotes: A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia. A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.
China Mieville quotes: These felt very much like last moments. These felt very much like last moments.
China Mieville quotes: We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore. We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.
China Mieville quotes: Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done. Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.
China Mieville quotes: Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
China Mieville quotes: He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't. He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.
China Mieville quotes: The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare. The unwritten novel has a basilisk's stare.
China Mieville quotes: The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years. The aim of a PhD's to ensure that no one, including your advisor, understands what you're doing after the first couple of years.
China Mieville quotes: My Google-fu is strong. My Google-fu is strong.
China Mieville quotes: The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama. The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.
China Mieville quotes: I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care. I mean course you want a change, we want a change, but if a change ain't godsdamn coming, then the next thing I wish is that I didn't care.
China Mieville quotes: Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.
China Mieville quotes: But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse. But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.
China Mieville quotes: My job is not to try to give readers what they want, but to try to make readers want what I give. My job is not to try to give readers what they want, but to try to make readers want what I give.
China Mieville quotes: But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight. But sometimes it ain't the strongest wins. And especially when the stronger thinks, because it's stronger, that it ain't got to try to fight.
China Mieville quotes: They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer. They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
China Mieville quotes: Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings. Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
China Mieville quotes: He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it. He said, You'll write it not because there's no possibility it'll be found but because it costs too much to not write it.
China Mieville quotes: Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out. Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.
China Mieville quotes: Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks. Surrealism comes for us all, Thibaut thinks.
China Mieville quotes: I love monsters. I love monsters.
China Mieville quotes: History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered. History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.
China Mieville quotes: Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity. Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.
China Mieville quotes: Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes. Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
China Mieville quotes: Sometimes translation stops you understanding. Sometimes translation stops you understanding.
China Mieville quotes: A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical. A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.
China Mieville quotes: I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
China Mieville quotes: There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions. There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.
China Mieville quotes: Everything's fit to be worshipped. Everything's fit to be worshipped.
China Mieville quotes: The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
China Mieville quotes: I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me. I have some gold. I will interest you. Pity me. I beg you to help me.
China Mieville quotes: A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation? A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?
China Mieville quotes: Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
China Mieville quotes: 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. 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.
China Mieville quotes: Devils and Nazis don't work well together. Devils and Nazis don't work well together.
China Mieville quotes: I think science fiction is very bad at prediction. I think science fiction is very bad at prediction.
China Mieville quotes: You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do. You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
China Mieville quotes: Death isn't what it used to be Death isn't what it used to be
China Mieville quotes: At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky. Women At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky. Women
China Mieville quotes: I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns.
China Mieville quotes: You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
China Mieville quotes: Any moment called now is always full of possibles. Any moment called now is always full of possibles.
China Mieville quotes: The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes. The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.
China Mieville quotes: I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion. I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
China Mieville quotes: The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
China Mieville quotes: So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated. So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
China Mieville quotes: I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often. I certainly didn't mind possibly sending the reader to a dictionary once in a while, but I tried not to do it too often.
China Mieville quotes: It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar. It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.
China Mieville quotes: We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
China Mieville quotes: We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream ... but then he might speak ... He left the gag in place. We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream ... but then he might speak ... He left the gag in place.
China Mieville quotes: Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house. Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.
China Mieville quotes: If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost - but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else. If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost - but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else.
China Mieville quotes: Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote. Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
China Mieville quotes: He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic. He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.
China Mieville quotes: I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
China Mieville quotes: London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness. London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.
China Mieville quotes: This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on? This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?
China Mieville quotes: Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things. Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.
China Mieville quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go. Why's there a pharos here?" he said. "You don't put a lighthouse where no one's going to go. You put it somewhere dangerous where they have to go.
China Mieville quotes: Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd. Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville quotes: Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life. Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
China Mieville quotes: She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care. She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.
China Mieville quotes: Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth. Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don't mean it's a myth.
China Mieville quotes: The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing. The Canadians had Terrell. He was uninfected, in quarantine, and knew nothing.

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