China Mieville Quotes

Speech is the small change of silence.

Thought is made in the mouth.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

I see magic in conversation and words, and music is purely speaking to others, isn't it?

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

There is no language that love does not speak.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

So the lover must struggle for words.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

What can I say? I'm a talker.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

How nice the human voice is when it isn't singing.

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Love without conversation is impossible.