China Mieville Quotes - Page 2

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• 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

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• I'm a very friendly socialist.

  China Mieville

  Friendly, Socialist

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• To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

  China Mieville

  Mean, Reality, Actions Have Consequences

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• Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

  China Mieville

  Two, Fundamentals, Influence

  "Reveling in Genre: An Interview with China Miéville". Interview with Joan Gordon, www.depauw.edu. November 2003.

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• 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.

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• Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

  China Mieville

  Too Much, Used, Changed

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• 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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• 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

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• Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

  China Mieville

  Memories, Past, Stitches

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• The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

  China Mieville

  Fantasy, Problem, Enough

  "Fantasy and revolution". Interview with John Newsinger, www.marxists.org. Autumn, 2000.

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• 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

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• In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

  China Mieville

  Heart, Dragons, Fields

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• 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.

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• London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

  China Mieville

  London, Emptiness, Angle

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• I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Conventions

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

  China Mieville

  Book, People, Way

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• A sickly little smile grew and died on his mouth like a fungus.

  China Mieville

  Mouths, Littles, Fungi

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• I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

  China Mieville

  Fiction, Geek, Fantasy

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

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• There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

  China Mieville

  Pain, Numbers, Way

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• There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.

  China Mieville

  Tea, Stuff, Painting

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• The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

  China Mieville

  Wings, Creative, Fantasy

  "The Road to Perdido". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. February 2003.

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• 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

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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.

  China Mieville

  Book, Thinking, Kraken

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

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• So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.

  China Mieville

  Fate, Long, Care

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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.

  China Mieville

  Cities, Opposites, London

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