“But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.” — David Mitchell Psychology 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
One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground. — David Mitchell Density 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
“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
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
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But… — David Mitchell Asian Copy Share Image
“I could tell you a hundred things, thinks Jacob, and nothing at all.” — David Mitchell Love 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
“Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.” — David Mitchell Love 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
“So many things there are to know. Most things happen because of mistakes.” — David Mitchell Failure Copy Share Image
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction — David Mitchell Fiction Copy Share Image
“Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to… — David Mitchell Courage 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
“A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.” — David Mitchell Forest Copy Share Image
“I'm shoutin' back more'n forty long years at myself, yay,...Oy, list'n! Times are you're weak 'gainst the world! Times are you can't… — David Mitchell Time 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
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
