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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

Topics: Downside Embraced Integral Integral Part Loneliness Necessary Now Part Realise Think Travelling Used

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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.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Became Become Brave Dad In The Past Less More Past Since Than Traveller

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

~David Mitchell

Topics: Concentrate How Livelihood Make Novelist Novels

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'Y' is about the weakest letter of all. 'Y' can't make up its mind if it's a vowel or a consonant, can it?

~David Mitchell

Topics: About Letter Make Make Up Mind Up Vowel Weakest

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

~David Mitchell

Topics: Hears Like Musical Notes Operate Think Words I Think

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Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Again Coming Stuff Up Writing

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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Arrive Being Formed Fully Me Novels Rather Than

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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

~David Mitchell

Topics: About Getting Human Interaction Perhaps Wanting

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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.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Book Certainly Character Complete Components Man Me Novel Plot Reader Structure Style Them Themes Think Valid Without You I Think

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I think we think in terms of stories.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Stories Terms Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 12th, 1969

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