David Mitchell - Book Quotes

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Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

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A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.

David Mitchell

Right now I'm working on a book set in the thirty years on either side of 2010, but I shouldn't give too many details or the next thing you know it's on Wikipedia and if I change my mind and decide to recast King Lear in a pond of frogs and toads I'll just give a hardworking Wikipedian an extra headache.

David Mitchell

I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.

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If you're in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you're reading, it's fate all the way.

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Books don't offer real escape but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

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