China Mieville Quotes

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Everybody loves monsters.

The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.

There are not so many mythical creatures from Inkheart.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

I love writing about monsters and food.

The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.

Mermaids are just the most whimsical, mystical creatures of all time.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

I do believe in monsters oddly enough. I think they're under my bed. But aliens are ridiculous; monsters I think are real completely though.

A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.

I seem to be the most wordy when it comes to monsters because I'm a bit of a monster freak.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

I love sci-fi and fantasy.

I don't really like fairies.

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

Vampires were an excellent springboard. I still love them; they fascinate me.

I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

Elves are cool, man.

More often than not, however, the person who flatly states 'Elves aren't like that!' is hard pressed to describe how they really look.... as if Tolkien has summoned archetypes from so deep in our minds that we can only recall them incompletely.