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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.
— David Mitchell
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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?
— David Mitchell
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
— David Mitchell
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The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are.
— David Mitchell
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I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
— David Mitchell
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When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
— David Mitchell
Tags: your, yourself, you, life
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