231 Quotes by China Miéville

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

To take the choice of another ... to forget their concrete reality, to abstract them, to forget that you are a node in a matrix, that actions have consequences. We must not take the choice of another being. What is community but a means to ... for all we individuals to have ... our choices.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

London is an endless skirmish between angles and emptiness.

So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.