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When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.
CHINA MIÉVILLE, interview, Science Fiction Studies, Nov. 2003
It's like little kids. They always love the dinosaurs and the monsters and the witches and the aliens and then they grow out of it. But there are some of us who don't! And thankfully I didn't.
CHINA MIÉVILLE, interview, 3:AM Magazine, 2003
You got to be worried when they're agreeing about anything.... Prophets. That's the last bloody thing you want prophets to do.
CHINA MIEVILLE, Kraken
Treating the fantastic seriously is one of the best ways of celebrating dialectical human consciousness there is.
CHINA MIÉVILLE, interview, Science Fiction Studies, Nov. 2003
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.
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