Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek.
China MievilleEvery book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
China MievilleMy job is not to try to give readers what they want but to try to make readers want what I give.
China MievilleEverything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.
China Mieville