David Mitchell Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von David Mitchell:

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

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

David Mitchell

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

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

David Mitchell

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

David Mitchell

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

David Mitchell

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

David Mitchell

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

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.

David Mitchell

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

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

David Mitchell

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.

David Mitchell