"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."

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Source : "China Mieville: 'My job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give' - interview". Interview with SkellieScar, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2012.

China Mieville

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“What Sri Chinmoy has done in his weightlifting is an absolute miracle. He is a man of unique strength, a spiritual man exemplifying mind over matter. He is not merely lifting a dumbbell â€“ he is trying to lift the attitude of the world.”
“My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.”
“What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.”
“You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.”
“Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.”
“The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.”
“I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1843). “The Bible in Spain; Or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonnements of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula”, p.344

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