Authors — Quotes

China Miéville Quotes: 7

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
King Rat
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.
The City & the City
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye.
The Scar
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
The Scar
Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
The dead are way more organized than the living.
Un Lun Dun
We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.
The City & the City