Quotes by China Mieville

About China Mieville:

China Tom Miéville is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his fiction as "weird fiction" (after early 20th-century pulp and horror writers such as H. P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird.
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Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

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If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of a sentence.

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We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and to...

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Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess over their narrative of history, you couldn't say their didn't shore it up with footnotes and research.

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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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I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

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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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Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

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If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it’s only sound, and that’s...

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Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook offends the bloody locals, one slip of the tongue or misuse of sacred cutlery, and bang, he's on the grill. Do you ever think about how self-aggrandisin...

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We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man ...

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I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

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A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome was an unexpected salvation?

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Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.

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History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

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Humans like nothing more than to pigeonhole the events & phenomena that punctuate their lives.

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People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights.

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In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

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Author Bio

  • NameChina Mieville
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • BornSeptember 6, 1972
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist