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China Miéville

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Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
DEBI GLIORI Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have th...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i...
KATHRYN ERSKINE If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dre...
HERMAN MELVILLE It's a matter of what are our priorities as a nation. Obviously, our priorities are guns and not boo...
DAN CURTIS Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ...
JOSH LIEB One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
GROUCHO MARX One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
GEORGE W. BUSH all my books are about a lonely person looking for some way to connect with other people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
CLIFF FADIMAN No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any...
STEPHAN GRELLET Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
FANNIE FLAGG Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is...
SIR FRANCIS BACON Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
ALEXANDER POPE I am not a cat burglar. I just went in to get some baby pictures, some books and other things.
MASON WILLIAMS I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to...
WATT KEY Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just dow...
PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
MARK E. SMITH Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always ...
UMBERTO ECO When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They...
JUDITH TARR I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO Sometimes being happy will
require some difficult conversations.
Some of those conversatio...
DOMONIQUE BERTOLUCCI I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
H.L. MENCKEN Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh ev...
LARRY WILMORE The Big Book of Easy Suppers
CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery
CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ...
EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
ROBERT CHAMBERS Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
LOUIS NIZER Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this a...
ROBERT CHAMBERS To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r...
PAMELA PAUL Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want ...
JACKIE COLLINS Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild bo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review&...
CARRIE COON The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms...
CORNELIA FUNKE A teacher is better than two books
GERMAN PROVERB A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
JAIME CONTRERAS Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numb...
EVAN OSNOS Books follow morals, and not morals books.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on oth...
C.S. LEWIS Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.
DAVID MACAULAY Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always hel...
ALICE HOFFMAN I picked up some software and some books and got online, ... and there were all these Danni Ashe pic...
DANNI ASHE I forgot it. I'm happy and excited. I'm honored to have my name in the books with some other great p...
CAMILLE LITTLE I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ...
JOSHUA SLOCUM Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
FRANCIS BACON Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
GUNTER GRASS Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
GüNTER GRASS If only education will aim at teaching learners’ real life and life in books and not just books, l...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books...
BRIAN WHITE where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.
JOHN CONNOLLY Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON We have built some 33 shelter schools and other institutions, and we have distributed books, bags an...
GHULAMULLAH AZAD Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar...
JOHN GREEN Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio...
JOE QUEENAN My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
JOHN SEARLES I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possi...
CAROLYN JONES I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE

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CHINA MIéVILLE We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's atten...
CHINA MIéVILLE Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.
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CHINA MIéVILLE While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we app...
CHINA MIéVILLE It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being....
CHINA MIéVILLE Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE Dismissing fantasy writing because some of it is bad is exactly like saying I'm not reading Jane Eyr...
CHINA MIéVILLE The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.
CHINA MIéVILLE A haggard man used one of the huts as a home. He lay on a sagging mattress, his head on his pack, su...
CHINA MIéVILLE My Google-fu is strong.
CHINA MIéVILLE Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.'

'Fascist,' Leon had...
CHINA MIéVILLE Devils and Nazis don’t work well together.
CHINA MIéVILLE We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how...
CHINA MIéVILLE There's something intrinsically radical about the fantastic aesthetic - starting from the premise th...
CHINA MIéVILLE How could one not think of the stories we all grew up on, that surely the Ul Qomans grew up on too? ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Same weather over here as back home," I said.
CHINA MIéVILLE And even if you’re right, the CIA paid millions of dollars to men trying to kill goats by staring ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Tutte le note erano come a strati, un palinsesto di interpretazione in progresso. Feci archeologia.
CHINA MIéVILLE «Si riferisce ai loro poteri magici? Vorrei, lo vorrei tanto. Ma anche così questi scavi sono inco...
CHINA MIéVILLE They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
CHINA MIéVILLE The early years of a Bes (and presumably an Ul Qoman) child are intense learnings of cues. We pick u...
CHINA MIéVILLE ...If she were studying Orciny, and there might be excellent reasons to do so, she'd be doing her do...
CHINA MIéVILLE Volunteering’s an early and strong indication that you’re not suited,” he said.
CHINA MIéVILLE But here’s the problem you’re not addressing. While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of...
CHINA MIéVILLE If the techs are on it we're fine, but Briamiv and his buddy could fuck up a full stop at the end of...
CHINA MIéVILLE …where the two cities are close up they make for interference patterns, harder to read or predict....
CHINA MIéVILLE At the social/political/ juridical, etc., level, the organizing principle was less to do with games ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Like any dissidents they were neurotic archivists. Agree, disagree, show no interest in or obsess ov...
CHINA MIéVILLE His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate.
CHINA MIéVILLE Interstiality is a theme that is simultaneously genuinely interesting and potentially quite useful, ...
CHINA MIéVILLE There is no case,” he told her. “There’s a series of random and implausible crises that make n...
CHINA MIéVILLE You cannot train yourself to successfully and sustainedly unsee and unhear — you do them all...
CHINA MIéVILLE From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy...
CHINA MIéVILLE He walked with equipoise, possibly in either city. Schrödinger’s pedestrian.
CHINA MIéVILLE Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?
CHINA MIéVILLE Tell me," Bren said. "I thought you'd despaired."
"I did, too."
"What then? Tell me...
CHINA MIéVILLE Oratees are addicts. Strung out on an Ambassador’s Language.
CHINA MIéVILLE Oh, bullshit,” Wyatt said. I blinked. “This isn’t one of those stories, Avice. One moment of c...
CHINA MIéVILLE You’d have known that without being told if you let yourself think about it.
CHINA MIéVILLE The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it’s a door. Your...
CHINA MIéVILLE You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
CHINA MIéVILLE They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, ...
CHINA MIéVILLE The sounds aren’t where the meaning lives. […]

Their language is organised noise, lik...
CHINA MIéVILLE Language is the continuation of coercion by other means."
"Bullshit. It's cooperation." Both th...
CHINA MIéVILLE A classic unspoken agreement among escapees from a small town: don't look back, don't be each other'...
CHINA MIéVILLE As an immerser I progressed to the ranks I aspired to—those that granted me a certain cachet and i...
CHINA MIéVILLE Its surface sheened with saft that evaporated out from its crystal shielding in threads that degrade...
CHINA MIéVILLE There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Oh, bullshit. This isn't one of those stories, Avice. One moment of cack-handedness, Captain Cook of...
CHINA MIéVILLE A promise fulfilled may be a classic moment, but prophecies mean anticlimax. How much more awesome w...
CHINA MIéVILLE Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.
CHINA MIéVILLE BEFORE THE HUMANS came we didn’t speak so much of certain things. Before the humans came we didn�...
CHINA MIéVILLE We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have t...
CHINA MIéVILLE I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Sometimes translation stops you understanding.
CHINA MIéVILLE Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth...
CHINA MIéVILLE I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.
CHINA MIéVILLE I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.....
CHINA MIéVILLE I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my op...
CHINA MIéVILLE I don't want to be a simile anymore,' I said. "I want to be a metaphor.
CHINA MIéVILLE A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
CHINA MIéVILLE For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Открой-ка рот. И как у тебя язык повернулся разболтать �...
CHINA MIéVILLE It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like some...
CHINA MIéVILLE Your job is to get villains. Right? You'll have to know what to do. If you don't know, you have to f...
CHINA MIéVILLE Everything's fit to be worshipped.
CHINA MIéVILLE And the continual non-up-turnance of so valuable a commodity as a giant squid—the thought of getti...
CHINA MIéVILLE Some midnight-of-all or other [apocalypse] was predicted every few days or nights. Most came to noth...
CHINA MIéVILLE A few mad exaggerations, alright, within a couple of days: swear to fucking god, they were like thro...
CHINA MIéVILLE How do you...? What is it you're doing?" he said to Vardy as the man took a breath, mid-insight. Wha...
CHINA MIéVILLE When he had first started at the center, he had liked to think that he was unexpectedly cool-looking...
CHINA MIéVILLE Just her, three men, a fidgety pig and lawful intent.
CHINA MIéVILLE Death isn't what it used to be
CHINA MIéVILLE But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.
CHINA MIéVILLE Dark came early and stayed full of lights and the shouts of children.
CHINA MIéVILLE Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.
CHINA MIéVILLE You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything," she said. "Prophets. That's the last bl...
CHINA MIéVILLE Dane discarded his speargun with visible relief. As a paladin of the Church of God Kraken, he had fe...
CHINA MIéVILLE As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizene...
CHINA MIéVILLE Virgina Woolf versus Edward Lear."

"Christ Alive," said Billy. "Are those my only choices...
CHINA MIéVILLE I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean som...
CHINA MIéVILLE Just thugs only ever got so far. The best thugs were all psychologists.
CHINA MIéVILLE Art Nouveau was coil-envy.
CHINA MIéVILLE He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.
CHINA MIéVILLE The sea is full of saints. You know that? You know that: you're a big boy.

The sea's ful...
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CHINA MIéVILLE Subby Subby Subby," whispered Goss. "Keep those little bells on your slippers as quiet as you can. S...
CHINA MIéVILLE We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge
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CHINA MIéVILLE A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.
It has been given many n...
CHINA MIéVILLE My dad hates umbrellas, said Deeba, swinging her own. When it rains he always says the same thing. '...
CHINA MIéVILLE When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
CHINA MIéVILLE This is a Possible Letter. Until the last second, when I write your name beside that word “Dear,�...
CHINA MIéVILLE Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.
CHINA MIéVILLE If the fucking Scar exists,” whispered the Brucolac, still without turning, “and if they get us ...
CHINA MIéVILLE I don't like allegory.
CHINA MIEVILLE The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance...
CHINA CHOW Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless en...
SAVANIA CHINA Live a life that fits your specific circumstances, not one that fits someone else’s expectations
SAVANIA CHINA Don't waste time defending your intentions. History will judge you by the outcomes of your actions
SAVANIA CHINA The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?...
SAVANIA CHINA I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste...
CHINA MIEVILLE In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew...
CHINA MIEVILLE A lot of geeks are pale, bespectacled, wear dark clothing and don't get out much - the stereotyp...
CHINA MIEVILLE Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.
CHINA MIEVILLE The investment is aiming at the air cargo market expansion in China.
CHINA AIRLINES Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
CHINA CANCIO I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.
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CHINA MIEVILLE My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicke...
CHINA MIEVILLE The road to success begins with knowing what you need to know and why
SAVANIA CHINA Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are
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CHINA MACHADO I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly...
CHINA MIEVILLE Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmm...
CHINA MIEVILLE Success is not a finite resource; share it, wish it on others, and celebrate others
SAVANIA CHINA Be smart. You Only Die Once -YODO
SAVANIA CHINA Break the rules not because you don’t know better, but because you know them too well
SAVANIA CHINA Although sometimes the road to success follows a path less-travelled, a path less-travelled often le...
SAVANIA CHINA My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists lik...
CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN When I perform, I like to wear funky flats, leather boots or knee-high Converse with bright laces. T...
CHINA ANNE MCCLAIN It's all in the reflexes.
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