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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. "
David Mitchell
Think
Used
Loneliness
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" You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins. "
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" 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. "
David Mitchell
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Only
I Believe
" 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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Past
More
In The Past
" I'm not a great deep political thinker. "
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Deep
" My books are anti-absolutist and deeply distrustful of any religious stance that precludes the validity of any other. "
David Mitchell
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Stance
Religious
" 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
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Personality
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" I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. "
David Mitchell
World
Living
I Can
" I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish. "
David Mitchell
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Fish
Used
" 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
First
Me
Meat
" I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.' "
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Wire
Love
Like
" False modesty can be worse than arrogance. "
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Modesty
Arrogance
False
" I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them. "
David Mitchell
New
Natural
Think
" For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. "
David Mitchell
Rather
Arrive
Being
" 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
Power
Love
Human
" 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. "
David Mitchell
Book
Style
Me
" In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals. "
David Mitchell
Good
Age
Young
" Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting. "
David Mitchell
Getting
Wanting
Interaction
" Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups. "
David Mitchell
Race
Division
Way
" 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
Say
Message
Believe
" I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers. "
David Mitchell
Got
Help
Literature
" A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice. "
David Mitchell
Win
Calm
Car
" I think we think in terms of stories. "
David Mitchell
Terms
Think
Stories
" 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
Why
Will
" Your environment affects you wherever you are. "
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Your
Environment
Wherever
" 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
Ambiguity
Been
Film
" 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
Life
Childhood
Day
" I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. "
David Mitchell
Book
Myself
Work
" There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier. "
David Mitchell
Little
Speech
Though
" 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. "
David Mitchell
People
Relationship
Time