“This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.” — David Mitchell Unseen forces Copy Share Image
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“We din't speak much from then 'cos speakin' can be heard by spyers what you can't spy.” — David Mitchell Speak 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
- 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
“A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.” — David Mitchell Nightmares 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
“People’re a nestful of needs. Dull needs, sharp needs, bottomless-pit needs, flash-in-the-pan needs, needs for things you can’t hold, needs for things… — David Mitchell Needs Copy Share Image
“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 Humor 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
“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
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Because Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Asking Copy Share Image
“Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking… — David Mitchell Schoolroom Copy Share Image
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 Arrive Copy Share Image
“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled… — David Mitchell Children 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 Matter 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
“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 Tokyo Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s… — David Mitchell Military police 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 Parenting Copy Share Image
“I put my hand on the altar rail. 'What if ... what if Heaven is real, but only in moments? Like a… — David Mitchell Happiness Copy Share Image
“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their… — David Mitchell Buried Copy Share Image
“We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We… — David Mitchell Memento mori Copy Share Image
