David Mitchell Professions : NovelistBorn : January 12, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 266 quotes by David Mitchell It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind. David Mitchell novelblindreading One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself. David Mitchell predatoryfineworld 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 bunniesfluffycages So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? David Mitchell winnerloserreal ...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses. David Mitchell missing-someonecoatshouse Dreams are shores where the ocean of spirit meets the land of matter. Dreams are beaches where the yet-to-be, the once-were, the will-never-be may walk awhile with the still-are. David Mitchell oceandreambeach A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it. David Mitchell readingbook What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds. David Mitchell atlascloudsgiving The better organized the state, the duller its humanity. David Mitchell organizedstateshumanity Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. David Mitchell imaginationchildrenthinking ...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. David Mitchell fireworks If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’. David Mitchell powerfulgivinglying Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love. David Mitchell eveningmennight How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner. David Mitchell would-bewritingwinter She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself. David Mitchell losesrevolvingviews The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting. David Mitchell memories I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed. David Mitchell catpersonalityfunny Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go. David Mitchell firsts Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices. David Mitchell sharksjoylove How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand! David Mitchell failing Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelistAll Authors
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