“Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.” — David Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
“A Titus Andronicus catalog of threats beat at the door. They haunt my nightmares still.” — David Mitchell Nightmares Copy Share Image
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. — David Mitchell Fantasy Copy Share Image
“Most yarnin's got a bit o' true, some yarnin's got some true, an' a few yarnin's got a lot o' true.” — David Mitchell True Copy Share Image
“He sifts the radio waves, but it's all men singing like women and women singing like men...” — David Mitchell Female Copy Share Image
“This world spins from the same unseen forces that twist our hearts.” — David Mitchell Unseen forces Copy Share Image
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
“Experimentally, silently, I mouth I love you ... No one hears, no one sees, but the tree falls in the forest just… — David Mitchell Feelings-of-love Copy Share Image
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re… — David Mitchell Coffin Copy Share Image
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
“Eva is guarded in a schoolroom down on Earth, chewing her pencil, dreaming of being with me, I know it, me, looking… — David Mitchell Schoolroom Copy Share Image
“Lunatics are writers whose works write them, Bat." "Not all lunatics are writers, Mrs. Rey-believe me." "But most writers are lunatics, Bat-believe… — David Mitchell Humor Copy Share Image
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it… — David Mitchell Approach 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… — David Mitchell Heart Copy Share Image
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent… — David Mitchell Flaunting Copy Share Image
“Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over,… — David Mitchell Dance Copy Share Image
“Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to… — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“Dreamt I stood in a china shop so crowded from floor to far-off ceiling with shelves of porcelain antiques, etc. that moving… — David Mitchell Dreams 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 Drink Places Copy Share Image
For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their… — David Mitchell Appetite Copy Share Image
The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But… — David Mitchell Because Copy Share Image
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Asking Copy Share Image
“Twenty million people live and work in Tokyo. It’s so big that nobody really knows where it stops. It’s long since filled… — David Mitchell Tokyo Copy Share Image
“Judith Rey watches the young woman. Once upon a time, I had a baby daughter. I dressed her in frilly frocks, enrolled… — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates… — David Mitchell Great man Copy Share Image
“You can improve an incoherent mess, but you can't improve nothing” — David Mitchell Improve Copy Share Image
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. — David Mitchell Needs Copy Share Image
![“I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe…” quote by David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/728/david-mitchell-264_great-man_i-put-it-to-the-great-man-hitchcock-the_2177328.jpg)
