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. David Mitchell Read Quote
I can’t bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can. David Mitchell Read Quote
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there’s that term ‘inscrutable.’ But often, Europeans just don’t get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK. David Mitchell Read Quote
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called ‘global literature’ is going. David Mitchell Read Quote
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. David Mitchell Read Quote
There’s a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can – hubris, I suppose – without stopping to work out why. David Mitchell Read Quote
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 Read Quote