China Miéville Quotes

• The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

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• We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.

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• They are too stupid to fear. Vertigo is too complex for them.

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• Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.

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• History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

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• Remember the movements that don’t look like moving.

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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 have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

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• Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.

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• Death isn’t what it used to be.

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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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• 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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• The dead are way more organized than the living.

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• A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.

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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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• The dead are way more organized than the living.

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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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China Miéville (17)

Birth:	6th September, 1972
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

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China Tom Miéville is an English fantasy fiction author, comic writer and academic. He is fond of describing his fiction as "weird fiction" and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird.

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