David Mitchell Quotes - Page 10

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• I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

  David Mitchell

  Literature, Bigs, Behemoth

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• I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

  David Mitchell

  Novelists, Novel, Livelihood

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• Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

  David Mitchell

  Interaction, Humans

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  David Mitchell

  Numbers, People, Age

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• 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

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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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• Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.

  David Mitchell

  Inspiring, Atlas, Kick Ass

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• We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

  David Mitchell

  Cutting, People, Busy

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.

  David Mitchell

  Hands, Ideas, Smell

  Interview with Steve Finbow, www.stopsmilingonline.com. June 29, 2007.

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

  David Mitchell

  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.

  David Mitchell

  Fighting

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• Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

  David Mitchell

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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

  David Mitchell

  Hbo, Wire, Productions

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

  David Mitchell

  Book, Challenges, Loses

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• Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

  David Mitchell

  President, Generations, Myopic

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell (p. 528), 2004.

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• Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.

  David Mitchell

  Feels, Japanese Food

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

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• To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

  David Mitchell

  Boredom, Judging, Fascination

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.40, Random House Group

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• Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

  David Mitchell

  Footprint, Forlorn, Trails

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.8, Random House Group

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• Wars do not combust without warning. They begin as little fires over the horizon. Wars approach. A wise man watches for the smoke, and prepares to vacate the neighborhood, just like Ayrs and Jocasta. My worry is that the next war will be so big, nowhere with a decent restaurant will be left untouched.

  David Mitchell

  Wise, War, Men

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.442, Random House Group

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• Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

  David Mitchell

  Party, Believe, Worry

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• I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

  David Mitchell

  Thinking, Age, Literature

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• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

  David Mitchell

  Dad, Past, Brave

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

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• 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

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• Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Three, Lines

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• As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

  David Mitchell

  Ethnicity, Long, Interesting

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