David Mitchell

“A finite infinity,”

— David Mitchell

Every nowhere is somewhere

— David Mitchell

“We had run out of infinity.”

— David Mitchell

“Our truth is terrorsome cold.”

— David Mitchell

“Art feasts upon its maker”

— David Mitchell

Do ants get headaches?

— David Mitchell

Music’s a wood you walk through.

— David Mitchell

I can write pretty much anywhere.

— David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

— David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

— David Mitchell

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

— David Mitchell

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

— David Mitchell

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

— David Mitchell

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose.”

— David Mitchell

“Well wakey fucking wakey, sunbeam! Life's fucking Borstal!”

— David Mitchell

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

— David Mitchell

“Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my…

— David Mitchell

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re…

— David Mitchell

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we…

— David Mitchell

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

— David Mitchell

“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.”

— David Mitchell

“This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.”

— David Mitchell

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

— David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

— David Mitchell

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and…

— David Mitchell

“A bird hopped onto the foaming lilac outside. Its throat quivered; notes rose and fell out. As long as it kept singing…

— David Mitchell

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes…

— David Mitchell

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'…

— David Mitchell

“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe…

— David Mitchell

“Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking…

— David Mitchell

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect…

— David Mitchell

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as…

— David Mitchell

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame…

— David Mitchell

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their…

— David Mitchell

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But…

— David Mitchell

“So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n…

— David Mitchell

“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled…

— David Mitchell

“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled…

— David Mitchell

“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only…

— David Mitchell

“Ayrs let long moments fall away. ‘You’re young, Frobisher, you’re rich, you’ve got a brain, and by all accounts you’re not wholly…

— David Mitchell