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China Mieville Quotes

English - Writer | September 6, 1972 -

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

Love People Want Books Interpret

I love monsters.

Love Monsters I Love

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

Book Remember Passionate Like Read

I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.

Science Fantasy Science Fiction 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.

Relationship Sorry Someone Mouth Bad

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

Writing Feel Sometimes Way Become

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.

Failure Quality Think Interesting

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart.

Heart Question Up Fiction Dragons

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Professional Never Been Writer Until

I don't like allegory.

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.

Job Feel Same Fiction Sense Piece

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Friendly Socialist Very

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