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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

Topics: Bear Beautiful Best Huge Imitate Living Try World I Can

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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

Topics: Ambiguity Been Contains Cut Every Film Final Itself Made Many Might Novel Other Perhaps Readers Slides Specificity Text Toward Versions Way Where Whereas

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Your environment affects you wherever you are.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Affects Environment Wherever You Your

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I'm not a great deep political thinker.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Deep Great Political Thinker

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A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

~David Mitchell

Topics: His Know Needs Novelist Own Points Strong Weak

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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.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Any Day Even Every Every Day Every Single Day Good Just Lines Matter Single Single Day Something Three Write

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Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Because Children Experience Imaginations Many Natural Perhaps Submission Think I Think

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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

Topics: Beings Bend Childhood Chunks Control Day Deep Desire Fantasy Flawed Giant How Inside Large Laws Life Magic Mercy No Control Novel Over Resonates Spend State Strong Then World You Your

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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

Topics: Age Among Best Decent Equals Fading Fiction Golden Golden Age Good Known Little Now Number Only People Philip Rowling Shows Sign Three Young Young People 1970S 1980S

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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.

~David Mitchell

Topics: Always Balloon Because Character Characters Comics Down Funny Get Goes Joke Jokes Just Lead Like Make Observation Right Sometimes Terrible Them True Why Will

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: January 12th, 1969

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