China Mieville Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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

  China Mieville

  Book, Sometimes, Conversation

• 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.

  China Mieville

  Book, Thinking, Kraken

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

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

  China Mieville

  Book, Writing, Ideas

• When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.

  China Mieville

  Couple, Book, Writing

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

  China Mieville

  Book, People, Want

• 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.

• I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

  China Mieville

  Book, Years, Passionate

  "I'm a fantasy geek". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2007.

• In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

  China Mieville

  Book, Writing, Names

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

• Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

  China Mieville

  Book, People, Way

• But I do 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 Mieville

  Book, Thinking, Important

• Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.

  China Mieville

  Book, Writing, Voice

  "China Mieville: 'My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give' - interview". Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.

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