I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Age 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 Copy Share Image
“There's got to be a nasty or dangerous side to anything enjoyable or there's something wrong, something suspicious and hidden. If everything… — David Mitchell Suspicious 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
“Clocks measure arbitrary meters of time, but not its speed. Nobody knows if time is speeding up, or slowing down. Nobody knows… — David Mitchell Clock Copy Share Image
“...and there, in the background, the brite spring sky's sediment had sunk to a dark band of blue. Ah, it mesmerized me...like… — David Mitchell Snow Copy Share Image
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The police have also been under hostile scrutiny because of their handling of the student protests over fees. I sympathise: they’re in… — David Mitchell Police Copy Share Image
“Goat tongue is a gift, you got it from the day you're borned or you ain't got it. If you got it,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love… — David Mitchell Wheelchair Copy Share Image
“Sorry, poppet,” I tell Aoife. “I was miles away.” “No, you weren’t. You’re right here.” “I was miles away metaphorically.” “What’s meta … frickilly?”… — David Mitchell Metaphor Copy Share Image
“After my modest victory I played patience (the card game, not the virtue, never that) in the lounge, something I had not… — David Mitchell Gambling Copy Share Image
When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't us, personally, who trashed the world," says Mo. "It was the system. We couldn't change it." "Then it's not… — 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 Cupboard Copy Share Image
“One can spot a fellow musician in any context, even amongst policemen. The craziest-eyed, unruliest-haired one, either hungry-skinny or jovial-portly.” — David Mitchell Music Copy Share Image
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the… — David Mitchell Art Copy Share Image
“If one will just be still, shut up, and listen --lo, behold, the world'll sift through one's ideas for one, esp. in… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to… — David Mitchell Courage Copy Share Image
“Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they… — David Mitchell Cell phones Copy Share Image
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere,… — David Mitchell Immorality Copy Share Image
“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent… — David Mitchell Death Copy Share Image
“Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, and though a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still… — David Mitchell Soul Copy Share Image
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No.… — David Mitchell 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
I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend… — David Mitchell Boundaries Copy Share Image
Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'? — David Mitchell Country Copy Share Image
“Now I seen Mauna Kena from Honokaa b'fore, o'course, but a mountain you're planning on climbin' ain't the same as the one… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
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