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.
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back. - China Mieville
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
- China Mieville
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it? - China Mieville
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles. - China Mieville
Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.
Remember the movements that don't look like moving. - China Mieville
Remember the movements that don't look like moving.
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? - China Mieville
Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am. - China Mieville
My sustenance is information. My interventions are hidden. I increase as I learn. I compute, so I am.
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable… - China Mieville
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable…
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them… - China Mieville
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them…
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge - China Mieville
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
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