"I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek."

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China Mieville

#Fiction Quotes #Geek Quotes #Fantasy Quotes

“It didn't matter if I got bitten by a dog or I ripped my pants on the fence post or I poked myself in the eye with a tree branch that I was crawling over, it was all about the shortcut. My whole life I took the shortcut, and I ended up lost.”
“Flee sloth; for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.”
“The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.”
“I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.169, A&C Black
“You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.”
“I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.”
“I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.”
“A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg.”

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