“A single night is stuffed with minutes, but they leak out, one by one.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Six feet directly beneath his seat is a suitcase in the baggage hold containing enough C-4 to turn an airplane into a… — David Mitchell Baggage Copy Share Image
“I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.” — David Mitchell Education Copy Share Image
“Women, oh, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words an' hold it up, sayin', Look what you attacked me with!” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.” — David Mitchell Novelist Copy Share Image
“Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." "Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of… — David Mitchell Life Copy Share Image
I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed. — David Mitchell Cat Copy Share Image
“But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind.” — David Mitchell Prisoner Copy Share Image
“The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the… — David Mitchell Animal Copy Share Image
“Why care about other people’s six-year-olds who’ll never perform anything because they died when Israeli bulldozers or Hezbollah rockets destroyed their homes?… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Embrace your enemy,” the elders urged, “to prevent him striking you.” (“Embrace your enemy,” Henry quipped, “to feel his dagger tickle your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The conflict between corporations and activists is that of narcolepsy versus remembrance. The corporations have money, power, and influence. Our weapon is… — David Mitchell Corporations Copy Share Image
“A time is one’s own, Eva, when oneself and one’s peers take the same things for granted, without thinking about it. Likewise,… — David Mitchell Time Copy Share Image
“Belief is both prize and battlefield, within the mind and in the mind's mirror, the world. If we believe humanity is a… — David Mitchell Belief 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
“But, overall, I concluded the young-hack-versus-corporate-corruption thriller had potential. (The Ghost of Sir Felix Finch whines, "But it's been done a hundred… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in… — David Mitchell Age Copy Share Image
“He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must… — David Mitchell Family Copy Share Image
“But love’s not just the drug; it’s also the dealer. Love wants love in return, am I right, Olly? Like drugs, the… — David Mitchell Calm mind Copy Share Image
“Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall… — David Mitchell Faith 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
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.” — David Mitchell Comfort Copy Share Image
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“An Anchorite was a girl who lived like a hermit in a cell, but in the wall of a church. A living… — David Mitchell Sacrifice Copy Share Image
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. — David Mitchell 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 Copy Share Image
“The glances musicians exchange, when music is effortless, that was what he wanted from Milly, that intimacy.” — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
“Sobering to think how one accursed night of baccarat can alter a man's social standing so irreversibly.” — David Mitchell Wine Copy Share Image
“Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods’ consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame… — David Mitchell Mirrors Copy Share Image
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't… — David Mitchell Depressed Copy Share Image
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's… — David Mitchell 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
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Books Copy Share Image
“there're times when i suspect that the mind has a mind of its own. it shows us pictures. pictures of the past… — David Mitchell Mind Copy Share Image
“I know that don't sound senseful, but yarns 'bout Old-Un Smart an' flyin' dwellin's an' grown' babbits in bottles an' pictures zoomin'… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
