"The act of memory is an act of…" — David Mitchell

"The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting."

— David Mitchell

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207 Quotes by David Mitchell

David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't…
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed…
A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into…
I can write pretty much anywhere.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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