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David Mitchell Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: January 12, 1969

Topics

School Writing Problems Want Right

In the media, I always seemed to come across as someone who was poking fun at the Scots and their football. I guess the Scottish public needed someone to blame for their international defeats, and I fitted the bill perfectly.

Jimmy Hill

Football Fun Blame Someone Media

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

Jimmy Wales

Time Hate People Free Kind Hard

I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers' assistant on the Fox show 'Bones.' He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.

Anders Holm

Business Coffee Waiting Looking Back

It just seemed the timing of it was a little bit of pandering to the public at a time of an election.

Matt Gonzalez

Time Election Timing Little Just

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them.

Tracey Ullman

Work Me Doing Important Want Things

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up.

Tony Dungy

Teacher Myself Mom Growing Up Book

I always lived with guitarists. When they would leave, I would just pick up their acoustic guitars and start doing finger picking and write.

Lou Doillon

Start Doing Write Always Leave Up

I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

Loni Love

Friend Best Best Friend Comedy Kind

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

Jay Weatherill

River Down Healthy Economy Industry

You know, I always was an early morning or late night writer. Early morning was my favorite; late night was because you had a deadline. And at four in the morning you make up some of your most absurd jokes.

Joss Whedon

Morning Night You Early Late Know

I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.

Donna Brazile

Step Me Way Along Counsel Hackers

The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?

Bruce Feiler

Time People Bible Story Why Who