"I am going to tell you a secret.……" — David Mitchell
"I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
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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…
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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