China Mieville Quotes

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 Mieville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 6, 1972

Topics

MeBookVoiceInterestingFirstGet

In the long term, Greece is an important market for us.

Jochen Zeitz

LongImportantLong TermUsMarket

Responding to emails during off-work hours isn't the only area in which you need to set boundaries. You need to make the critical distinction between what belongs to your employer and what belongs to you and you only.

Travis Bradberry

YouNeedBoundariesEmployerYour

I define my work as a feminist act and a political act because I'm black and a woman. You don't necessarily have to claim that, but the act of making art itself is a political and feminist act when you're a woman.

Mickalene Thomas

WorkArtWomanBlackPoliticalYou

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy.

Donna Tartt

LoveChildrenSecretNeedClubEven

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

Claire Scovell LaZebnik

TimeValueBreakfastMeSomeoneYou

If you watch punches, kicks, and moves where there is contact, Cody Rhodes is one of the best.

Bret Hart

BestYouContactWatchWhereKicks

We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana.

Bobby Jindal

KissWhyWillChangesOfficeCut

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Anthony Storr

MarriageHappinessTearsEndLook

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

Swami Vivekananda

EyesUniverseHandsDarkCryWho

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.

Peter O'Toole

ManWillCommonCommon ManSmooth

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.

Sebastian Faulks

MusicThoughtBackThreeWayTwo

The Iraq war was not necessary.

Scott McClellan

WarNecessaryIraq WarIraq

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