A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. — David Mitchell Book Copy Share Image
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears. — David Mitchell Clock Copy Share Image
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there. — David Mitchell Another world Copy Share Image
“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.” — David Mitchell Forgiveness 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
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Run across a field of daisies at warp speed but keep your eyes on the ground. It's ace. Pedaled stars and dandelion… — David Mitchell Astronomy Copy Share Image
“If only human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Human beings Copy Share Image
“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they… — David Mitchell Rewriting history Copy Share Image
“She'n'her bros at the school'ry'd made a new game, Zachry'n'Meronym on Mauna Kia, but Abbess say-soed 'em not to 'cos times are… — David Mitchell Game Copy Share Image
“If ever a place had a karma of damnation, it's Rottnest. And all those slick galleries selling Aboriginal art were eroding away… — David Mitchell Aboriginal Copy Share Image
“A true suicide is a paced, disciplined certainty. People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and… — David Mitchell Cowardice Copy Share Image
“Old Rekohu’s claim to singularity, however, lay in its unique pacific creed. Since time immemorial, the Moriori’s priestly caste dictated that whosoever… — David Mitchell Civilization Copy Share Image
“Taking it all the way to a disciplinary procedure and talking to a national newspaper is the mark of an unusual man.… — David Mitchell Better world Copy Share Image
“He also administered the school's corporal punishment known as The Wacks - which I was told, involved being hit with a big… — David Mitchell Corporal punishment Copy Share Image
I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“Scholars discern motions of history & formulate these motions into rules that govern the rises & falls of civilizations. My belief runs… — David Mitchell Belief Copy Share Image
“The Research Excellence Framework is starting to ask what sorts of curiosity our culture can afford, and that scares me even more… — David Mitchell Curiosity Copy Share Image
“We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk… — David Mitchell Drive Copy Share Image
“He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.” — David Mitchell Chance Copy Share Image
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Listening's reading if you close your eyes. Music's a wood you walk through.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. — David Mitchell 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 Better things Copy Share Image
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! — David Mitchell Bewildered Copy Share Image
“[Writing is] world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache.” — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“Ruddy hell, the cold smacked my face with an iron spade! Now I knew why northerners go in for beards, woad, and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.” — David Mitchell Crush Copy Share Image
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. — David Mitchell Behemoth Copy Share Image
“War's never a picnic. Although obviously soldiers do end up eating outdoors quite a lot.” — David Mitchell Peace Copy Share Image
“Naming, thinks Jacob, even in ridicule, gives what is named substance.” — David Mitchell Ridicule Copy Share Image
“Poor England. Too much history for its acreage. Years grow inwards here, like my toenails.” — David Mitchell England Copy Share Image
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration. — David Mitchell Comedy Copy Share Image
“Oaks live for six hundred years. Two hundred to grow, two hundred to live, two hundred to die.” — David Mitchell Flower Copy Share Image
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