China Mieville Quotes

Sci-fi and horror, particularly, allow a storyteller to depart from, let's say, the demands of cinema verite or kitchen-sink realism or, even, just relatable dramas and can go into areas that are either - in the case of horror - more primally effective or, in the case of sci-fi, more speculative or imaginative.

I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.

The more kind of head trippy sci-fi. I always like that. I was a big 'Twilight Zone' freak.

I like the things around me to be beautiful and slightly dreamy, with a feeling of worldliness.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component: perhaps the very definition of that mode categorized as the 'New Weird' and exemplified most famously by the groundbreaking work of China Mieville.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.

As for genre, my adult books are usually filed under science fiction / fantasy, although some stores put them into romance, and few have stuck them into horror. I consider all my books a mix of steampunk and urban fantasy.

I did three of the original 'Twilight Zone' episodes, yes. Also, I did a little thing in the feature film, and then I wrote one of the episodes in 'The Twilight Zone's last round where I starred with Cloris Leachman and my daughter Liliana in a true sequel to 'It's a Good Life.' So, yes, I have a good 'Twilight Zone' alumni jacket.

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

I always wanted to do action-adventure, and science fiction genres were always something that were of great interest to me.

I'm a huge fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy films.

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

I enjoy watching movies that are high concept or science fiction or have supernatural elements, like '2:22' has.

Space opera was the sort of story on which I grew up. When I was younger, I read heavily in pulp magazines. They were readily available in the stores.

I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.

I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.

I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.