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Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.


China Miéville

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KELLY JONES If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die.
FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
MARK E. SMITH The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.
SAUL DAVID The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows lik...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but real."
Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some ...
CASSANDRA CLARE When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
DOROTHY ALLISON I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.
RICK RIORDAN I haven't got time to read books.'

'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
JACKIE COLLINS The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Infinities are not for casual exploration. You could fall and keep falling. You could get lost.
LAINI TAYLOR He fought to destroy those monsters, yet found they never seemed to die—rising anew every dawn.
ELIZABETH D. MARIE While his brain lay slowly dying, Bevan felt his body come back to life.
STEPHANIE BEDWELL-GRIME Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What's not to like? I love fantasy books. I love magic and dragons.
EMILY SMITH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
URSULA K. LE GUIN I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, imm...
RICK WAKEMAN The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY If you are going to write, say, fantasy - stop reading fantasy. You've already read too much. Re...
TERRY PRATCHETT Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt.
"You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth.
RICK RIORDAN You can read books to children, but some of the noise comes over. It's too small for kids to branch ...
LEROY HOMMERDING The world of books is my fantasy.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read f...
DAVID LEVITHAN Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.
JOHN HOWE It was a weird thing for me, because I don't read vampire books. I don't watch vampire movies. I'm n...
STEPHENIE MEYER My husband and I like to reminisce about how, when we were 9, we read straight through L. Frank Baum...
JUDY BLUME Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horro...
NANCY A. COLLINS I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of mon...
DONALD J. TRUMP I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They rea...
SHERMAN ALEXIE The dragon is a more enduring animal than the pterodactyl. I have never yet met anyone who really be...
KENNETH GRAHAME Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to...
TONY DITERLIZZI Cake for later, cake as a way of life.
LAINI TAYLOR For peace read books, for success read books and take actions.
AMIT KALANTRI Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc...
JOHN GREEN Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
TERRY PRATCHETT Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind i...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
KERI HULME I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time...
JAMES PATTERSON Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ...
RANDY PAUSCH Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris.
Percy: the ...
RICK RIORDAN They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'...
MIKE CAREY In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written ...
OSCAR WILDE Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you&#...
ADAM MANSBACH I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd no...
DAVID THEWLIS Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write the...
LLOYD ALEXANDER There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely...
LYNN COADY The way I see it: Why get out of bed when you can read about people who got out of bed?
-ERIC FOREMAN THAT 70'S SHOW Wondering where the Mokians get all those shark teeth? Well it involves using children who read the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Answering heat leapt into her eyes. Raven laughed softly. “You have it all, don’t you? Charm, yo...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget ab...
FRANK ZAPPA Go on, just come out with it, whatever it is.” She braced herself against the counter.
Pete...
DEBORAH BLAKE Peter,” she whispered. “I don’t suppose this place has a bedroom.”
He laughed softly i...
DEBORAH BLAKE Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the differenc...
CAROL BERG Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN I sat up in bed. "What did he say?"
Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on ...
RICK RIORDAN The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.
ELLEN POMPEO I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
VLADIMIR PUTIN Help your father
As he ages
And loses his strength
For it was he who sheltered you RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them
MARK TWAIN One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were defi...
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS I was twelve when I read my first sf magazine
PHILIP K. DICK Love: so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the ...
AVIJEET DAS Good children do taste better, but there are so few of them. If you can be satisfied with naughty ch...
DAVID DEMCHUK It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...
MAURICE SENDAK When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality....
JAMES GURNEY All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches...
E. L. JAMES Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded t...
RICK RIORDAN I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, no...
PHILIP K. DICK The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
MARK TWAIN There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary o...
DAVID WONG Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign corr...
ALAN FURST ...Okay... probably now you have read all my books up to now..., you have check out everything what ...
DEYTH BANGER An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness...
CHERYL R COWTAN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance....
GENA SHOWALTER Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the s...
L.A. WEATHERLY Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
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If I program ’ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it,” Scile said. “If I ...
CHINA MIéVILLE Any moment called now is always full of possibles.
CHINA MIéVILLE Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, whic...
CHINA MIéVILLE Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and...
CHINA MIéVILLE A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.
CHINA MIéVILLE When people dis fantasy—mainstream readers and SF readers alike—they are almost always talking a...
CHINA MIéVILLE The dead are way more organized than the living.
CHINA MIéVILLE Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you who...
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.
CHINA MIéVILLE I hoped the hunter would come. I imagined him pushing through the thickets in the foothills. I've th...
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...
CHINA MIéVILLE We cannot see the universe. We are in the darkness of a trench, a deep cut, dark water heavier than ...
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
CHINA MIéVILLE The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...
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.
CHINA MIEVILLE I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vi...
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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