Top 70 China Miéville Quotes (2024 Update)
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China Miéville Quote: “Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.”

51. “Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they’re not absurd.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”

52. “A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”

53. “Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.”

54. “Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “Remember the movements that don’t look like moving.”

56. “Remember the movements that don’t look like moving.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “There’s plenty of stuff that I don’t feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don’t have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.”

57. “There’s plenty of stuff that I don’t feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don’t have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “We should have just killed him, that’s a lesson, don’t get creative with revenge.”

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

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.”

60. “His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “I remember vividly what it’s like to read as a 10-year-old – that passionate inhabiting of a book.”

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

— China Miéville

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

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

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.”

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

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.”

64. “There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “I love it when people want to interpret my books.”

66. “I love it when people want to interpret my books.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “I’d never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.”

67. “I’d never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.”

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

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

70. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “I don’t like allegory.”

72. “I don’t like allegory.”

— China Miéville

China Miéville Quote: “While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they’ve come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.”

73. “While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they’ve come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.”

— China Miéville

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