"If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all."

“I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows awayOf course you have to make your habits in this conform to what you can do. I write only about two hours every day because that's all the energy I have, but I don't let anything interfere with those two hours, at the same time and the same place.”

“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”

“Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.”

“a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!”

“I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.”

“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.”

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.

“Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.”