"Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter……" — David Mitchell
"Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
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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…
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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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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
— Anita Baker
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
— John Desmond Bernal
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
— Sarah Brightman
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
— Warren Buffett
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
— Steve Buscemi
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