“The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were… — David Mitchell Haunting Copy Share Image
“This druid feeling I get in the woods’s so thrilling it makes me want to crap, so I dug a hole with… — David Mitchell Adventure Copy Share Image
Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us… — David Mitchell Back together Copy Share Image
“You have to know someone intimately to be able to love them. So love at first sight is a contradiction in terms.… — David Mitchell First sight Copy Share Image
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of… — David Mitchell Adaptation 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
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. — David Mitchell Editing Copy Share Image
“So how does it feel?” is the reasonable question you hear a lot when your book completes the long ascent from production… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“After the nuclear war, kids like them’ll rule what’s left. It’ll be hell.” — David Mitchell Children Copy Share Image
“por qué cualquier dominador teme que sus vasallos adquieran conocimiento. No me atreví a pronunciar la palabra insurrección” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. — David Mitchell Feet Copy Share Image
Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell Diplomacy Copy Share Image
“ if you go up there Old Georgie'll freeze you an' dig out your soul with a cruel'n'crookit spoony an' eat it… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“So do not fritter away your days. Sooner than you fear, you will stand before a mirror in a care home, look… — David Mitchell Fear Copy Share Image
“Those were the terms in which my parents, keen for me to grow up well grounded in cynicism, explained things to me.… — David Mitchell Parenting Copy Share Image
Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us… — David Mitchell Creation Copy Share Image
“There’s the blind, Mr. Grimaldi, there’s the willfully blind, and then there’s the soon to be retired.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“come now, what's a reviewer?" I reasoned. "One who reads quickly, arrogantly, but never wisely...” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters. — David Mitchell Crosses Copy Share Image
“We - by whom I mean anyone over sixty - commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We… — David Mitchell Memento mori Copy Share Image
“The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred times before!"--as if there could be anything not done… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“What is it that ties shapes of land to the human heart, Mo?” — David Mitchell Human heart Copy Share Image
“Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a… — David Mitchell Fitness Copy Share Image
