“..one's environment is a key to one's identity, but that environment, Papa Song's, was a key I had lost.” — David Mitchell Environment Copy Share Image
An idler and a sluggard are as different as a gourmand and a glutton. — David Mitchell Different Copy Share Image
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
“The Ghost-Girl's lips was fixed in a bitter smile, but her creamy eyes was sad so sad but proud'n'strong too.” — David Mitchell Eyes Sad Copy Share Image
The learnin' mind is the livin' mind... an' any sort o' smart is truesome smart, old smart or new, high smart or… — David Mitchell Inspirational Copy Share Image
“I’m about to tell Jonah about the safari Dad’s going to take me on, but Mrs. Marconi says talking’s like ping-pong: you… — David Mitchell Says Talking Copy Share Image
“Dr. Upward was one of those Academy Award-winning Asses of Arrogance you find in educational administration, law or medicine.” — David Mitchell Academy award Copy Share Image
“Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a… — David Mitchell Breaks Copy Share Image
“There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything… — David Mitchell Suspicious Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell Beings Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin'… — David Mitchell Old books Copy Share Image
“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's… — David Mitchell Ends Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Calm mind Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk… — David Mitchell Drive Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Curiosity Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“He also administered the school's corporal punishment known as The Wacks - which I was told, involved being hit with a big… — David Mitchell Corporal punishment Copy Share Image
“Dogs hate foxes. Nazis hate Jews. Hate doesn’t need a why. Who or even what is ample.” — david mitchell Israel Copy Share Image
I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible? — David Mitchell Atlas Copy Share Image
“Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.” — David Mitchell Close your eyes Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Accepted Copy Share Image
“He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.” — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. — David Mitchell Feet Copy Share Image
“A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.” — David Mitchell Forest Copy Share Image
“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.” — David Mitchell Nero Copy Share Image
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.” — David Mitchell Forgiveness Copy Share Image
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Clock Copy Share Image
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. — David Mitchell Another world Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“A whoah game it was, said Catkin, but I din’t want to know its rules nor endin’.” — David Mitchell Football Copy Share Image
“I am designing the future on beer mats, like Churchill and Stalin at Yalta.” — David Mitchell Beer Copy Share Image
My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other. — David Mitchell Any Copy Share Image
