"I'm a novelist, that's how I make my……" — David Mitchell
"I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards…
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Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
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We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served…
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and…
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The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course…
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Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.
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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
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What we need to do in this PC world is forget about unanimity of speech and unanimity of thought and…
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would…
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself…
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