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David Mitchell has 209 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
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Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true!…
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A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving…
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the…
— Pope John XXIII
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Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
— John Bunyan
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And that, said John, is that.
— A A Milne
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The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.
— Edward Eager
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Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
— Orson Scott Card
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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age.…
— Orson Scott Card
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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Have you noticed," said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
— David Mitchell
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The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
— Aldous Huxley
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