David Mitchell Quotes - Page 7

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• Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Editing, Self

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• 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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• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

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  Feels, Japanese Food

  "What's in your basket?". Interview with Olivia Gordon, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2007.

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• The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.

  David Mitchell

  Doors, Ears, Earth

  "Black Swan Green". Book by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. April 2006.

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• Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

  David Mitchell

  Dream

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Oh, diplomacy ... it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents.

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  Strong, War, Mean

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.443, Random House Group

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• As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

  David Mitchell

  Long, Way, Originality

  "David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand". "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. March 30, 2008.

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• Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

  David Mitchell

  Writing

  David Mitchell (2008). “Ghostwritten”, p.401, Hachette UK

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• Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Sin, Hell

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• Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

  David Mitchell

  Phones, People, Too Late

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.70, Vintage

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• A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

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  Strong, Novelists, Needs

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• Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

  David Mitchell

  Travel, Loneliness, Thinking

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• The human world is made of stories, not people.

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  People, Stories, World

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.378, Vintage

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• Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

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  Fighting

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• I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

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  Funny, Wish, Asbestos

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

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  Book, Challenges, Loses

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• I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

  David Mitchell

  Hbo, Wire, Productions

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• I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

  David Mitchell

  Errors, Mental Illness, Illness

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.197, Random House Group

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• ... but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many an Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all.

  David Mitchell

  Attitude, Years, Soul

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.390, Random House Group

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• Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

  David Mitchell

  Summer, Goodbye, Remember

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• Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.

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  Smart, Heart, Miracle

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.276, Random House Group

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• There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

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  Links, Spelling, Bigotry

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• Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

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  Lonely, Writing, Sickness

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.467, Random House Group

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• I hear my father-in-law's response..."Naïve, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!" Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?

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  Dream, Pain, Father

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• Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

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  Necks

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