Lists Quote by David Mitchell Download Open image “I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.” — David Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Added Writers List People Lists People People Trust Trust Writers Writers List Writing
That is the thing about being a writer; your subject matter may not stay your subject matter if you break their trust by revealing… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone.… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore Copy Share Image
I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I think once I began to trust myself as a writer, I began to be seen as a writer. — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Writers are generally anonymous. It just that I think I got out there because I also act as well and put myself in my… — Kevin Grevioux Copy Share Image
Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf 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 to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think it is worse [in 2015] for a mid-list author such as myself. You either have to sell like Stephen King or go… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Grace is upside-down, to-do-list wrecking, scandalous and way-too free. It's one-way love. — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done… — Deacon Jones Copy Share Image
I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do… — Tina Roth-Eisenberg Copy Share Image
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
You look at most of these 'best chef' lists, and there are about nine male chefs and one woman chef. The problem is still… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
Wasn't Saddam destroyed? Wasn't Gaddafi liquidated? Didn't Milosevic go to the Hague? All true. But Stalin survived. Kim Jong-un isn't doing too badly, either… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
It might be different for people that are A-list actors, but a lot of us really look at what's offered to us and look… — John Noble Copy Share Image
Pastime with good company I love and shall, until I die. Grudge who list, but none deny! So God be pleased, thus live will… — Henry VIII of England Copy Share Image
[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image