Author: China Miéville

Cites

• Philip K. Dick (1)
  • IN: Perdido Street Station (2000) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated street. That's a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
    FROM: We Can Build You, (1972), Novel, US
• Bruno Schulz (2)
  • IN: The City & the City (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, doppelgänger streets, mendacious and delusive streets
    FROM: The Cinnamon Shops and other stories, (1934), Book, Poland
  • IN: The City and the City (2009) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Deep inside the town there open up, so to speak, double streets, doppelganger streets, mendacious and delusive streets.
    FROM: The Cinnamon Shops and Other Stories, (1934), Book, Poland
• Walter Benjamin (1)
  • IN: Embassytown (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The word must communicate something (other than itself)
    FROM: On Language as Such and on the Language of Man, (1916), Book, Germany
• Ilse Aichinger (1)
  • IN: Three Moments of an Explosion (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The horses dreamed on their feet and the wild animals, crouching to leap even in thier sleep, seemed to be collecting gloom under their skins which would break out later.
    FROM: The Bound Man, (1953), Book, Austria
• Hugh Cook (1)
  • IN: Kraken (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The green waves break from my sides As I roll up, forced by my season.
    FROM: The Kraken Wakes, (1953), Novel, UK
• Grace Pailthorpe (1)
  • IN: The Last Days of New Paris (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: One overhears many reactions to surrealist art, but the most pathetic of all is from those who ask, "What am I supposed to see and feel from this?" In other words, "What does papa say I may think and feel about this?"
    FROM: On the importance of Fantasy Life, (1939), NULL, UK
• Jane Gaskell (1)
  • IN: This Census-Taker (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Like all these long low squat houses, it had been built not for but against. They were built against the forest, against the sea, against the elements, against the world. They had roof-beams and doors and hatred -- as though in this part of the world an architect always included hatred among his tools, and said to his apprentice: "Mind you've brought along enough hatred today."
    FROM: Some Summer Lands, (1977), Novel, UK
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Railsea (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Talpa ferox rex
    FROM: Great Southern Moldywarpe, (None), NULL, NULL