China Mieville Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

China Mieville quotes and sayings page 3 (writer). These are the last 8 out of 28 quotes we have.

“I'm a very friendly socialist.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“'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.”