"Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the……" — David Mitchell
"Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again."
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207 Quotes by David Mitchell
David Mitchell has 207 quotes on this site.
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False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
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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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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.
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