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" I'm not a great deep political thinker. "
David Mitchell
Thinker
Political
Deep
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" I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character. "
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Style
Me
" My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other. "
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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
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" As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off. "
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" I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment. "
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Most
Story
" I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. "
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Above
See
" Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. "
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Wanting
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" A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points. "
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" I can write pretty much anywhere. "
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Much
Anywhere
Write
" False modesty can be worse than arrogance. "
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" Japanese food makes me feel particularly good. "
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Makes
Food
Feel
" 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. "
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Problems
Right
" Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. "
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Believe
Only
I Believe
" The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not. "
David Mitchell
Choice
You
Words
" Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level. "
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People
Relationship
Time
" 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. "
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Every Day
Matter
Three
" I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. "
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Welcome
Ideas
Language
" When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! "
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Will
Me
People
" I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents. "
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Time
You
Parents
" Your environment affects you wherever you are. "
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Environment
Wherever
" It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. "
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True
" 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. "
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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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Used
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" I think we think in terms of stories. "
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Terms
Think
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" You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. "
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You
Richard
" For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. "
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Rather
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Being