The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. China Mieville More Quotes by China Mieville More Quotes From China Mieville 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 ghettohateself ...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? China Mieville destinedskillshero We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge China Mieville creativerevengeshould-have Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? China Mieville conspiracyfoolish 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 youthchildrenthinking 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 changedusedtoo-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 starslightfire 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 crushdarkfall 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 moonsoullong I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice. China Mieville cowardiceunderstoodregret Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me. China Mieville stitchesmemoriespast I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville science-fictionconventionsfiction 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 importantbookthinking 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 paintingstufftea Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. China Mieville bookpeopleway 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 daylightmomentssummer I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. China Mieville writingbookideas I'm a very friendly socialist. China Mieville socialistfriendly 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 visioninterestingthinking I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. China Mieville geekfantasyfiction
