Quotes by China Mieville

China Mieville

…where’s the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

Destined

Hero

Skills

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.

Cities

London

Opposites

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

Long

Moon

Soul

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Kraken

Moments

Anything for gold and experience.

Gold

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.

Book

Important

Thinking

Ever since I was two, I’ve loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Monsters

Octopus

Two

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction – and it doesn’t get the attention it deserves from the literati.

Attention

Fantasy

Fiction

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.

Giants

Monsters

Squids

For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers – and one comes true.

Infinity

Might

Outcomes

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Angle

Animal

Apples

Attention

Book

Care

Cities

Conspiracy

Couple

Cowardice

Creating

Creative

Dad

Death

Destined

Doors

Dragons

Emptiness

Fantastic

Fantasy

Fate

Feels

Fiction

Fields

Fire

Foolish

Friendly

Future

Geek

Ghetto

Giants

Giving

Gold

Goodbye

Google

Hate

Healing

Heart

Hero

Horror Stories

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Increase

Infinity

Information

Inspiration

Interesting

Intervention

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Quotes by China Mieville

China Mieville

…where’s the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

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.

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

Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

Anything for gold and experience.

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.

Ever since I was two, I’ve loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction – and it doesn’t get the attention it deserves from the literati.

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.

For every action, there’s an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers – and one comes true.

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