David Mitchell People Quotations

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.

Somebody is going to know these faces and somebody is going to call and we are going to catch these people who have avoided prosecution for these years.

People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.

Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

The human world is made of stories, not people.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.

People b'lief the world is built so an' tellin'em it ain't so caves the roof on their heads 'n'maybe yours.

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!' But we were as white, straight, and middle-class as the next family on our white, straight, middle-class housing estate.

Heaven forbid we have anything like (Hurricane) Katrina, where it takes forever to help people. A community full of people my age needs all the help it can get.