I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back. — David Mitchell Answers Copy Share Image
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell Fiction Copy Share Image
“We all think we're in control of our own lives, but really they're pre-ghostwritten by forces around us.” — David Mitchell Power Copy Share Image
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your… — David Mitchell Crime Copy Share Image
“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.” — David Mitchell Earliest memories Copy Share Image
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we… — David Mitchell Birth Copy Share Image
“I put ten sugar cubes in my coffee. I drank it through my tongue, and my blood sang like the Archangel Gabriel… — David Mitchell Coffee Copy Share Image
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. — David Mitchell Beats Copy Share Image
“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;” — David Mitchell Future Copy Share Image
“Was there anything under those lids? Remorse, resentment, even indifference? Or was there only nothing? Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.” — David Mitchell Indifference Copy Share Image
“How Opulent the building had felt after my own parents' bland box of suburbia - one day, I promise, I'm going to… — David Mitchell Home Copy Share Image
“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent… — David Mitchell Fathers Copy Share Image
Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes… — David Mitchell Believe Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Absence Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh… — David Mitchell Between Copy Share Image
I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the… — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Four high school girls in, but one of them was completely, completely different. She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I know that… — David Mitchell High school Copy Share Image
“The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness.… — David Mitchell Ghost stories Copy Share Image
“Yay, Old Uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in… — David Mitchell Master One Thing Copy Share Image
“Contrary to popular wisdom, bullies are rarely cowards. Bullies come in various shapes and sizes. Observe yours. Gather intelligence. Shunning one hopeless… — David Mitchell Bullying Copy Share Image
“I think about pinball, and how being a kid’s like being shot up the firing lane and there’s no veering left or… — David Mitchell Different path Copy Share Image
“Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land &… — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin… — David Mitchell Abolition Copy Share Image
“…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all… — David Mitchell Confidence Copy Share Image
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold… — David Mitchell Adulthood Copy Share Image
“Even time is not immune to time. Once the only times that mattered were the rhythms of the planet and the body.… — David Mitchell Nobody knows Copy Share Image
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. — David Mitchell Density Copy Share Image
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. — David Mitchell Clubs 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
“But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.” — David Mitchell Psychology Copy Share Image
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. — David Mitchell Ancient Copy Share Image
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body? — David Mitchell Body Copy Share Image
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
