“She pulsed, invisibly, like a quasar. I can't describe women, but if you know Duke Pearson's 'After the rain', she was as… — David Mitchell Love Copy Share Image
“My friend is composing an epic in Byronic stanzas entitled "True History of Autua, Last Moriori" & interrupts my journal writing to… — David Mitchell Friendship Copy Share Image
“...his deceased wife, watches her husband from the photograph on his console desk.” — David Mitchell Marriage Copy Share Image
“We were, to quote the proverb, "The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“All rising suns set, Archivist. [...] All revolutions are [fantacy, lunacy], until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [...] I was… — David Mitchell History Copy Share Image
“Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451. And I might observe that you have embraced corpocracy propaganda wholeheartedly, Archivist.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I got a six'n'six so maybe my luck was healin', so I thinked, fool o' fate what I am, yay, what we… — David Mitchell Luck Copy Share Image
“How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chinese silk, porcelain, and spices.… — David Mitchell China Copy Share Image
“Reading off a page is like looking down at a landscape from a balloon – your eye "sees" the story as well… — David Mitchell Absorbing Copy Share Image
“I watched clouds awobbly from the floor ' that kayak. Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape… — David Mitchell Spirituality Copy Share Image
She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like… — David Mitchell Appreciate Copy Share Image
She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. — David Mitchell Physics Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.” — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most — David Mitchell Beautiful Copy Share Image
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. — David Mitchell Needs Copy Share Image
“A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat.” — David Mitchell An-orison-of-somni-451 Copy Share Image
“Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who’d make such a… — David Mitchell Lois lane Copy Share Image
“Because a man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my… — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“A man like me has no business with this substance "beauty," yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart.” — David Mitchell Beauty Copy Share Image
“Four construction workers sit around four greasy bowls in silence. The cook, an old man who died several days ago, has been… — David Mitchell Construction work Copy Share Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
