231 Quotes by China Miéville

I’m a science fiction and fantasy geek.

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.

If you’re brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn’t, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

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

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

You’d love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.

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.

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

I don’t like allegory.