“He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men...” — David Mitchell Female Copy Share Image
“Most yarnin's got a bit o' true, some yarnin's got some true, an' a few yarnin's got a lot o' true.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just… — David Mitchell Feelings-of-love Copy Share Image
“...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.” — David Mitchell Naivete Copy Share Image
“A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.” — David Mitchell Nightmares Copy Share Image
“Anonymous, faceless homicides, he decides, lack the thrill of human contact.” — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
“We din't speak much from then 'cos speakin' can be heard by spyers what you can't spy.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He lights another match to see if it's a time worth getting up for: 4:05. No. An inbetween hour.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A society where you’re not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim… — David Mitchell Trumpet Copy Share Image
Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular.… — David Mitchell Interrogation Copy Share Image
“One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all… — David Mitchell Flower Copy Share Image
“all leaders can sense what people’re afraid of and turn that fear into bows and arrows and muskets and grenades and nukes… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But,' I ducked the subject, 'don't heaps of artists use pseudonyms?' 'Who?' 'Um . . .' Only Cliff Richard and Sid Vicious… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“I wonder what happened to him, I wonder what happened to all of them, this wondering is the nature of matter, each… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiques, etc. that moving… — David Mitchell Dreams Copy Share Image
“A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“I watched clouds awobbly from the floor ' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Those were the terms in which my parents, keen for me to grow up well grounded in cynicism, explained things to me.… — David Mitchell Cynicism Copy Share Image
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices.… — David Mitchell China Copy Share Image
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
