The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview
China MievilleWord spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.
China MievilleI'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.
China MievillePart of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.
China Mieville