231 Quotes by China Miéville

What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

Remember the movements that don’t look like moving.

A trap is only a trap if you don’t know about it. If you know about it, it’s a challenge.

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.

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven’t grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

We should have just killed him, that’s a lesson, don’t get creative with revenge.

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