David Mitchell Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!

  David Mitchell

  Language, Prison, Foreign Language

  David Mitchell (2008). “Black Swan Green”, p.153, Hachette UK

• Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

  David Mitchell

  Bunnies, Fluffy, Cages

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.173, Random House Group

• Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

  David Mitchell

  Keys, Order, Color

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

• Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Faithful, Degrees

• I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

  David Mitchell

  Philosophical, Ideas, Welcome

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