Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach. by David Mitchell

Better a soulless clone... than a souled roach.

David Mitchell

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Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor... by David Mitchell

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

poor pay people

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and sti... by David Mitchell

War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.

auctions winning war

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a n... by David Mitchell

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.

nouns verbs soul

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.

color keys order

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at... by David Mitchell

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

nervous scared past

I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror

mirrors pyramids mean

The earth's a door if you press your ear against it. by David Mitchell

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

earth ears doors

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.

groups race humanity

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully form... by David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

novel

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?

pain dream father

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. by David Mitchell

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

novelists strong needs

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned. by David Mitchell

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.

dream

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

think creativity matter sometimes

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

human power love death

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.

yourself you hotel life

Perhaps where text slides toward ambiguity, film inclines to specificity. A novel contains as many versions of itself as it has readers, whereas a film's final cut vaporizes every other way it might have been made.

text where film way

My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other.

other books any religious

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. by David Mitchell

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.

richard part-time you

The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.

you personality book art

I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right.

problems want writing school