China Mieville

Writer

1972-09-06

China Mieville is a British novelist and critic known for speculative fiction that blends fantasy, science fiction, and political themes. He is associated with the New Weird movement.

Quotes by China Mieville

I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.
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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.
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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.
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I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
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