My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers … - China Mieville

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The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss.

China Mieville

My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.

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Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

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I have danced with the spider. I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god.

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For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.

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I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same as the job of a piece of fiction.

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Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

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For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

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Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.

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