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 Mieville More Quotes by China Mieville More Quotes From China Mieville The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. China Mieville novel writing way Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world. China Mieville ghetto hate self ...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? China Mieville destined skills hero We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge China Mieville creative revenge should-have Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? China Mieville conspiracy foolish 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 changed used too-much PEOPLE HAVE WANTED TO narrate since first we banged rocks together & wondered about fire. There’ll be tellings as long as there are any of us here, until the stars disappear one by one like turned-out lights. China Mieville stars light fire 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 Mieville crush dark fall A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. China Mieville moon soul long I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice. China Mieville cowardice understood regret Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. China Mieville stitches memories past I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville science-fiction conventions fiction 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 important book thinking 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 painting stuff tea Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. China Mieville book people way The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. China Mieville daylight moments summer I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. China Mieville writing book ideas I'm a very friendly socialist. China Mieville socialist friendly I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today. China Mieville vision interesting thinking I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville geek fantasy fiction
