China Mieville Quotes - Page 3

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• I love it when people want to interpret my books.

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  Book, People, Want

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• I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

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  Paranoid, Ifs

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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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  Rocks, Broken, Together

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• Old stories would tell how Weavers would kill each other over aesthetic disagreements, such as whether it was prettier to destroy an army of a thousand men or to leave it be, or whether a particular dandelion should or should not be plucked. For a Weaver, to think was to think aesthetically. To act - to Weave - was to bring about more pleasing patterns. They did not eat physical food: they seemed to subsist on the appreciation of beauty.

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  Appreciation, Army, Men

  "Perdido Street Station". Book by China Mieville, 2000.

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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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  Regret, Cowardice, Understood

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• Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

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  Sky, Sitting, Sun

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• My Google-fu is strong.

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  Strong, Google

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• The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

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  Amazon, Interviews, Idiot

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• Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.

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  Squids, Monsters, Giants

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• Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. Sparklehorse and Starpink have managed to creep out of Apple Palace past all the monkeyfish, but if we're silent as tiny goblins we can surprise them and then all frolic off together in the Meadow of Happy Kites.

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  Past, Kraken, Apples

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• My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. 'I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

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  Dad, Hate, Rain

  ""Un Lun Dun"". Chapter 3, "The Visiting Smoke". Book by China Miéville, 2007.

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• It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

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  Memories, Journey, Cities

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• Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.

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  Hate, Ghetto, Self

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

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  Moon, Long, Soul

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• I don't like allegory.

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  Allegory

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• I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

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  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotype exists because it is very often true. I could pass for a non-geek but it would be inaccurate.

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  Dark, Would Be, Geek

  "This much I know". Interview with Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

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  Summer, Daylight, Moments

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• In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall softly through the dark, days after their vessels have capsized. They decay on their long journey down. Nothing will hit the black sand at the bottom of the world but algae-covered bones.

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  Crush, Fall, Dark

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

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  Revenge, Should Have, Creative

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• I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

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  Thinking, Interesting, Vision

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• 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.

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  Cities, Opposites, London

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• I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

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  Sorry, Kids, Sidekicks

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

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  Beautiful, Hippie, Names

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• Kraken' is a very undisciplined book. That's a gamble. If it doesn't come off, it's disastrous. But there are pleasures, I think, to a meandering lack of discipline that you can't get the other way, and vice versa.

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  Book, Thinking, Kraken

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 15, 2010.

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