Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

China Miéville Quotes: The unwritten novel has a basilisk’s stare.
         

The unwritten novel has a basilisk’s stare.


China Miéville
Check all other quotes by China Miéville

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





The unwritten novel has a basilisk’s stare.
         



Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"China Miéville Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Sun. 29 Sep. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-unwritten-novel-has-a-basilisk-s-226995>.




Check out


Other quotes of China Miéville


Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.

Part of the appeal of the fantastic is taking ridiculous ideas very seriously and pretending they're not absurd.



Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.



Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.



Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.

Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.



A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.

A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.



The dead are way more organized than the living.

The dead are way more organized than the living.



Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.



If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.

If you're brave enough to try, you might be able to catch a train from UnLondon to Parisn't, or No York, or Helsunki, or Lost Angeles, or Sans Francisco, or Hong Gone, or Romeless.



It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.



A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.





Other quotes you may like


I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!



In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters

In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters



I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.



If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.



When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.



I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.

I don't like the way I ever appear on TV.



I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.



It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.

It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.



Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.

Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.



There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "The unwritten novel has a basilisk’s stare.". Author of this quote is China Miéville. .