BiographyType: Novelist Born: 12 January 1969 Died: David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. in Comparative Literature. |
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it
turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
ground it gets all mushed up. So it’s only absolutely perfect when it’s falling through the air,
this way and that, for the briefest time!.!.!.
If the affluent cannot afford hope, you cannot expect the destitute to pay for desperation.
I asked, how is knowledge found?
'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman.
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
Men marry women hoping they'll never change. Women marry men hoping they will.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.
Books tended not to switch their stories whenever it suited them.
Do you know? He says. "I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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