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Think Quotes by David Mitchell

11 Think quotes by David Mitchell

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David Mitchell’s thoughts on thinking mirror his intricate storytelling, linking mental processes to the fabric of narrative. In this succinct selection you’ll sense his literary depth and the way he invites readers to ponder the act of imagination.

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“We all of us have less time than we think, Ed.”

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I think we think in terms of stories.

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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

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Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh…

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I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the…

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Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it…

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

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“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…

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I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many…

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

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“The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep…

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“I envied my uncritical, unthinking sisters.”

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“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five…

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“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.”

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Your environment affects you wherever you are.

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“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 in Great…

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“Loyalty looks simple... but it ain't.”

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“Only the trombonist played on. That's trombonists for you.”

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War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

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The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

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So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

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I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs…

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“A classical LP was playing... ... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal. But if the right words existed…

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

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“Writing poetry's,' I looked around the solarium, but Madame Crommelynck's got a tractor beam, 'sort of . . . gay.' '"Gay"? A merry activity?'…

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