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. David Mitchell Read Quote
When I think about it, I’m happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They’ll preorder me. What a lucky guy! David Mitchell Read Quote
I’m not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome. David Mitchell Read Quote
Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretation for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable. David Mitchell Read Quote
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. David Mitchell Read Quote
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep. David Mitchell Read Quote
