Top 28 Quotes by China Mieville

I love monsters.

I don't like allegory.

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

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

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

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.

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.

In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.