David Mitchell Thinking Quotations

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

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.

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

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

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

This world, he thinks, contains just one masterpiece, and that is itself.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I think we think in terms of stories.

One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Secrets affect you more than you’d think. You lie to keep them hidden. You steer talk away from them. You worry someone’ll discover yours and tell the world. You think you are in charge of the secret, but isn’t it the secret who’s actually using you?

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.