David or Dave Mitchell may refer to:
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day.
Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.
Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.
Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.
I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.
When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.
The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.