China Miéville Quotes

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy c...

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into ...

The bullets are gun-eggs,” Collingswood said to Baron, looking at Vardy. Farmers squeezing their hol...

For the Right, strikes are both devilish and pathetic, have both terrible and absolutely no effects.

Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.

It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me...

The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respe...

The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then... what if sh...

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to car...

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

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....

A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome w...

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and rob...

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're...

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

There’s a big default notion that “spare,” or “precise” prose is somehow better. I keep insisting to...

The unwritten novel has a basilisk’s stare.

Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth...

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

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

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I do the...

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King R...

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

My Google-fu is strong.

How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. Wha...

Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.

A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like thro...

That's what gets converts these days," Baron said. "It's a buyers' market in apocalypse. What's hot ...

Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess ov...

The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy. The sea's full of saints ...

I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a boo...

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...

I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. The...

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste...

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

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge

I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean som...

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No Y...

Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist....

The dead are way more organized than the living.

So what’s your alternative?” people say, as if that’s logic. We don’t have to have an alternative, t...

You can tell it any way you want, he said, you can be I or he or she or we or they or you and you wo...

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

I closed my eyes then but it was too dark to clearly see that vision that my body would conjure out ...

Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a brid...

These felt very much like last moments.

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

He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking,...

A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. ...

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 ...

In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall sof...

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's atten...

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimat...

People have wanted to narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll b...

History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

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

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising t...