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David Mitchell Quotes

English - Novelist | January 12, 1969 -

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Construction True Become More Adept

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale.

Creativity Think Seeing Sometimes

Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.

Never Used Being Books Happens Then

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.

Words Think You Choice Know Same

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

People Me Think Will Lucky Guy

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

Time Parents You Down Place Crime

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Welcome Ideas Language Where Were

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Beautiful Best World I Can Living

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.

Way Final Cut Ambiguity Film Text

Your environment affects you wherever you are.

Environment You Wherever Affects

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

Great Deep Political Thinker

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

Strong Know Weak Own Needs His

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