David Mitchell Quotes

born 1969 England

David Mitchell (born 12 January 1969) is an award-winning British writer of postmodernist novels. He has lived for many years in Japan, and has set much of his fiction in the Far East.

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As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be any religious people.

The Bone Clocks (2014)

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Ghostwritten (1999)

The body is the outermost layer of the mind.

number9dream (2001)

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

number9dream (2001)

Lunatics are writers whose works write them.

Ghostwritten (1999)

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

Ghostwritten (1999)

"In what space does the mind operate?"

I like to carry some cash because you feel like you can cope with any situation — such as being mugged. I always try to have about £50 in my pocket just for convenience, really.

History admits no rules, only outcomes. What precipitates outcomes? Vicious acts & virtuous acts. What precipitates acts? Belief.

Cloud Atlas (2004)

What is this thing, "imagination?"

History admits no rules; only outcomes.

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.

Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.

number9dream (2001)

Ghostwritten’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, "Why do things happen?" so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams’s secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, "In what space does the mind operate?"

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Mitchell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.