231 Quotes by China Miéville

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

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.