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But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books. (China Miéville)
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. View quote
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. View quote
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I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. View quote
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I'm a very friendly socialist. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek. View quote
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Fantastic fiction covers fantasy, horror and science fiction - and it doesn't get the attention it deserves from the literati. View quote
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I love it when people want to interpret my books. View quote
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I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre. (China Miéville)
I love monsters. View quote
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I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore. View quote
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Art Nouveau was coil-envy. View quote
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So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. View quote
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I refute that-I think that those are inevitable components, but it's the surrendering to the impossible, the weird, that characterizes genre. View quote
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It's about the positing of something impossible-whether not-yet-possible or never-possible-and then taking that impossibility and granting it its own terms and systematicity. View quote
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Marxism isn't about saying you'll get a perfect world: it's about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it's hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. View quote
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How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It's the surplus of animal fear, it's never indicated, it's nothing but itself. View quote
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Do you even know why you're angry with me? View quote
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So what's your alternative? (China Miéville)
The other, more nebulous, but very strong influence of RPGs was the weird fetish for systematization, the way everything is reduced to "game stats.”. View quote
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In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole world-building thing is very close to my heart. View quote
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I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek. View quote
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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. View quote
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