David Mitchell Quotes - Page 3

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• The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

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  Past

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.393, Random House

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• I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

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  Thinking, Stories, Entertainment

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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 that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

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  Character, Balloons, Sometimes

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• I got a rejection letter from an editor at HarperCollins, who included a report from his professional reader. This report shredded my first-born novel, laughed at my phrasing, twirled my lacy pretensions around and gobbed into the seething mosh pit of my stolen clichés. As I read the report, the world became very quiet and stopped rotating. What poisoned me was the fact that the report's criticisms were all absolutely true. The sound of my landlady digging in the garden got the world moving again. I slipped the letter into the trash... knowing I'd remember every word.

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  Moving, Writing, Garden

  "Once upon a life" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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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 consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

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  Winning, Voice, Giving

  "Once upon a life: David Mitchell" by David Mitchell, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2010.

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• Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.

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  Technology, Soldier, Quality

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.266, Random House

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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.

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  Travel, Loneliness, Thinking

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

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• I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

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  Important, Atlas, Feels

  "Fictional character: Isaac Sachs". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. September 8, 2012.

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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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• I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

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  Thinking, Musical, Notes

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• Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

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  Interaction, Humans

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

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  Doors, Ears, Earth

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

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

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  Inspiring, Atlas, Kick Ass

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

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  Philosophical, Ideas, Welcome

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

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  Writing, Editing, Self

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• Who was blowing on the nape of my neck?

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  Necks

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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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• 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.

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  Hands, Ideas, Smell

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

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

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  Cutting, People, Busy

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

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• Under the Enrichment Laws, consumers have to spend a fixed quota of dollars each month, depending on their strata. Hoarding is an anti-corpocratic crime.

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  Law, Each Month, Hoarding

  "Cloud Atlas". Book by David Mitchell, "An Orison of Sonmi~451", p. 237, 2004.

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• Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war.

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  War, Views, Long

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

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• ...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

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  Fireworks

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.470, Random House

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• Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

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  Nintendo, Parallel Universe, Parallels

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• One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

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  World, Fine, Predatory

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