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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

Topics: Art Better Book Cell Disorder Form Illness Much Multiple Nearer Novelist Personality Personality Disorder Unrelated You

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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

Topics: Arrive Because Collect Dads Get Just Kids Last Paragraph Problems Right School Starting Stopping Want Writing

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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Book Challenges Lose Making Myself Often Work

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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

Topics: Asian Asians Being Believe Codes East Europeans Expressed Expressive General Get Japanese Just Like Me Message Often Ok Particular People Say Term Very

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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

Topics: Also Another Cultural Every Evolve Just Language Level Long Long Time National Own People Read Relationship Takes Time True

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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

Topics: Bad Bad News Calm Car Consultant Crash Get Giving Just Knocked Life Lottery New News Orbit Voice Win

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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

Topics: About Become Decided First Going Great He Hughes Invite Me Meat Poet Publish Read Ted Would Yorkshire

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

~David Mitchell

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There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

~David Mitchell

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I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish.

~David Mitchell

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 12th, 1969

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