Quote

As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.

David Mitchell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Text Writer
Translator
Writer
Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
Constraints
Originality
Happens
Long
Way
Houdini

More quotes by David Mitchell

Image
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.
David Mitchell
Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.
David Mitchell
Image
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.
David Mitchell
Image
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
David Mitchell
Image
Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.
David Mitchell
Image
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.
David Mitchell
Image
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.
David Mitchell
Image
Your turn has come to sift through the dreck of humanity for rare specks of originality
David Mitchell
Image
Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.
David Mitchell
Image
To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.
David Mitchell
Image
Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.
David Mitchell
Image
Do, said Louisa finally, whatever you can't not do.
David Mitchell
Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself to extinction.
David Mitchell
Image
The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.
David Mitchell
Image
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too.
David Mitchell
Image
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?
David Mitchell
Image
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
David Mitchell
Image
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
David Mitchell
Image
Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.
David Mitchell
Image
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.
David Mitchell