English - Novelist | January 12, 1969 -
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
David Mitchell
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I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the 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?
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I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
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For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
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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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I think we think in terms of stories.
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I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
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I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
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I can write pretty much anywhere.
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When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.
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