China Mieville Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by China Mieville
China Mieville Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.
Standing there on his new perch, Sham was overwhelmingly bored of feeling overwhelmed. The more he worked, he realized, the quicker he worked.
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.
That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot in heresy's Armageddon.
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.
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.
As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.
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.
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice ...
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
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?
A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other's anchors, no nostalgia.
We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.
Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.
I still think that's the bravest thing I've ever done.
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
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.
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.
Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself.
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.
They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.
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.
A blast, an acceleration, the distillate, the spirit, the history, the weaponized soul of convulsive beauty went critical.
There were times, Sham felt, when the captains regretted there being only two types of limb they could lose to their obsessions.
A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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.
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.
At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky. Women
I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.
The one that goes: I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
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.
It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.
We could take his gag away, thought Isaac, and he wouldn't scream ... but then he might speak ... He left the gag in place.
Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.
If you didn't know, you wouldn't take him for part-ghost - but you'd know he wanted to be somewhere else.
Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
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?
Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.
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.
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.
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.