“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Novelist Copy Share Image
“Writers don’t write in a void. We work in a physical space, a room, ideally in a house like Laxness’s Gljúfrasteinn, but… — David Mitchell Space Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“You fanfare your 'Information Revolution', your email, your email, your vid cons! As if information itself is thought! You have no idea… — David Mitchell Data 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
“When the temple finally equals its counterpart in the Pure Land, so the story goes, that day humanity shall have fulfilled its… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and… — David Mitchell Mean Copy Share Image
What is "poker"? A card game where abler liars take money off less able liars. — David Mitchell Able Copy Share Image
“What's wrong, de Zoet? You look like your breeches are beshatten.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our sole weapon… — David Mitchell Civil war Copy Share Image
“Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he… — David Mitchell Politics Copy Share Image
“So I telled her my 'maginin's o' places from old books'n'pics in the school'ry. Lands where the Fall'd never falled, towns bigger'n… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Go on, my dear," urges the snake. "Take one. Hear it? 'Pluck me,' it's saying. That big, shiny red one. 'Pluck me,… — David Mitchell Adam and eve 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
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
People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before… — David Mitchell Becoming Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Cynical Copy Share Image
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and… — David Mitchell Chaos Copy Share Image
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! — David Mitchell Foreign language 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 wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.” — David Mitchell Artificial intelligence Copy Share Image
“It was only a wasp,’ I say, ‘there are plenty more where they came from.’ This is not good enough for Tomomi:… — David Mitchell Good enough Copy Share Image
