“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
“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
“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
“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.” — David Mitchell Adverbs Copy Share Image
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. — David Mitchell Brave Copy Share Image
“Music leaks out of the Walkman, and a saxophone from long ago circles in the air, so sad it could barely leave… — David Mitchell Leaks Copy Share Image
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels. — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. — David Mitchell Courage 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
“And for What, For What. No matter what you do it will never amount to anything but a single drop in a… — David Mitchell Limitless Copy Share Image
“All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony… — David Mitchell Mother 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 Propaganda Copy Share Image
“Mrs.Comb tightened her headscarf and wondered why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they… — David Mitchell Beings Despise Copy Share Image
“Temple of the Rat King. Ark of the Soot God. Sphincter of Hades. Yes, King's Cross Station, where, according to Knuckle Sandwich… — David Mitchell Blow job Copy Share Image
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write… — David Mitchell Every day Copy Share Image
“The Ticket-wallah, whose pimples bubbled as I watched, was as intractably dense as his counterpart in King's Cross. The Corporation breeds them… — David Mitchell Stem cell Copy Share Image
If, by happiness, you mean the absence of adversity I and all fabricants are the happiest stratum in corpocracy as genomicists insist.… — David Mitchell Absence Copy Share Image
Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the… — David Mitchell Approach Copy Share Image
“While the wealthy are no more likely to be born stupid than the poor, a wealthy upbringing compounds stupidity while a hardscrabble… — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a… — David Mitchell Adam Copy Share Image
“There are different ways people make this place. Sweat, exercise and pain is one way. You can see them in the gyms,… — David Mitchell Different ways Copy Share Image
“Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty.… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“I skanked deep on Wolt's pipe an' four days march from our free Windward to Kona Leeward seemed like four mil'yun, yay,… — David Mitchell Drums Twanged Copy Share Image
“Our weaponry was not dropped onto our laps one morning. It is not manna from Sinai’s skies. Since Agincourt, the White man… — David Mitchell Dominion Copy Share Image
“Don't let death, Jacob reproves himself, be your final thought.” — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
