David Mitchell (author) quotes - page 2
Perhaps the best answer is that the writer that I am has been shaped by the stammering kid that I was, and that although my stammer didn't make me write, it did, in part, inform and influence the writer I became. It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction. Synonyms aren't always neatly interchangeable. Sometimes choosing word B over word A requires you to construct a different sentence to house it-and quickly, too, before your listener smells the stammering rat.
David Mitchell (author)
Ghostwritten's secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, "Why do things happen?" so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams's secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, "In what space does the mind operate?"
David Mitchell (author)
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 (author)
David Mitchell (author)
Occupation: English NovelistBorn: January 12, 1969
Quotes count: 104
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