David or Dave Mitchell may refer to:
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
. . . now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.
The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins.
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.
. . . there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
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.
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M. A. s in postmodernism and chaos theory.
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
Perpetual encagement endows any mirage of salvation with credibility.
I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.
Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.
Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
Teachers're always using that "in your own words. " I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?
Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.
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.