Latest China Mieville Quotes from Interviews

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• One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Fantasy, Weirdness

  Source: www.believermag.com

• When I write my novels, I'm not writing them to make political points. I'm writing them because I passionately love monsters and the weird and horror stories and strange situations and surrealism, and what I want to do is communicate that. But, because I come at this with a political perspective, the world that I'm creating is embedded with many of the concerns that I have. But I never let them get in the way of the monsters.

  China Mieville

  Writing, Horror Stories, Creating

  Source: www.believermag.com

• I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Facts, Minimalist

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

• What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

  China Mieville

  Book, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

• No one ever got into science fiction for the sex or prestige. They got into it because they love it.

  China Mieville

  Sex, Fiction, Prestige

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

• 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.

  China Mieville

  People, Proud, Geek

  Source: www.believermag.com