China Mieville Way Quotations

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

The dead are way more organized than the living.