David Mitchell Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Inspirational, Real, Reading

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Book, Half

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.64, Random House

• A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Reading

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.365, Random House

• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Book, Used

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

• I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Hero, Journey

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.169, Random House

• Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of rags, riches, and heartbreak were no camouflage against the miseries trained on you by the tennis ball launcher of life, were they? But, yes, Mum, there again, you have a point. Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

  David Mitchell

  Mother, Real, Book

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.357, Random House

• If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Reading, Fate

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.305, Hachette UK

• But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Heard

  David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.152, Hachette UK

• I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Challenges, Loses

• When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

  David Mitchell

  Book, Thinking, People

• I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

  David Mitchell

  Book, Answers, Maps

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.15, Vintage

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