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China Miéville Quotes | Quotes said by China Miéville

  • China Miéville Quote #1

    Get back to work, he would tell himself sternly. There's a garuda to get airborne.


  • China Miéville Quote #2

    A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like throwing grenades and pulling out all kinds of crazy knackery, it was out of control. Whatever. As if the story, if big enough, reflected glory on the teller.

  • China Miéville Quote #3

    A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.
    It has been given many names. Each inlet and bay and stream has been classified as if it were discrete. But it is one thing, where borders are absurd. It fills the space between stones and sand, curling around coastlines and filling trenches between the continents.

  • China Miéville Quote #4

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

  • China Miéville Quote #5

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

  • China Miéville Quote #6

    Any moment called now is always full of possibles.

  • China Miéville Quote #7

    Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

  • China Miéville Quote #8

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

  • China Miéville Quote #9

    Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

  • China Miéville Quote #10

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

  • China Miéville Quote #11

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

  • China Miéville Quote #12

    He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking, toward the godsquid he knew was there, tentacular fleshscape and the moon-sized eye that he never saw but knew, as if the core of the fucking planet was not searing metal but mollusc, as if what we fall toward when we fall, what the apple was heading for when Newton's head got in the way, was kraken.

  • China Miéville Quote #13

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

  • China Miéville Quote #14

    History seemed meaningless here, or at least bewildered.

  • China Miéville Quote #15

    How do you...? What is it you're doing? he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. What do you call that? Billy thought. That reconstitutitive intelligence, berserker meme-splicing, seeing in nothings first patterns, then correspondence, then causality and dissident sense.

    Vardy even smiled. Paranoid, he said. Theology.

  • China Miéville Quote #16

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

  • China Miéville Quote #17

    I don’t generally publicly respond to
    reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers’ responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.

  • China Miéville Quote #18

    I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale.

  • China Miéville Quote #19

    I know, I know, Moore said. Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean something else? Shook his head. What an awfully arrogant thing. What if faiths are exactly what they are? And mean exactly what they say?
    Stop trying to make sense of it and just listen, Dane said.
    And what, Moore said, if a large part of the reason they're so tenacious is that they're perfectly accurate?

  • China Miéville Quote #20

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

  • China Miéville Quote #21

    I think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books

  • China Miéville Quote #22

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

  • China Miéville Quote #23

    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 not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.

  • China Miéville Quote #24

    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.

  • China Miéville Quote #25

    If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

  • China Miéville Quote #26

    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.

  • China Miéville Quote #27

    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.

  • China Miéville Quote #28

    Into sleep's benthos and deeper. A slander that the deepest parts are lightless. There are moments of phosphor with animal movement. Somatic glimmers, and in the trench of sleep those lights were tiny dreams.

  • China Miéville Quote #29

    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.

  • China Miéville Quote #30

    It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?

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