“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
“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
“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that… — David Mitchell Age 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
“One should be wary of touching one’s idols, for the gilt comes off on one’s fingertips.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers,… — David Mitchell Ambiguity Copy Share Image
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears. — David Mitchell Eyeballs 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
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
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it." "Then it's not… — David Mitchell 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 Regret 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
“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
