Logo
Quote by David Mitchell
In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for youn

In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but were 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. – David Mitchell

Other quotes by David Mitchell

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 cant help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that its taught writers. – David Mitchell

Category:
Age
Author
David Mitchell
Read Quote

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is. – David Mitchell

Category:
Death
Author
David Mitchell
Read Quote

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as its true for people, its also true on a national or cultural level. – David Mitchell

Category:
relationship
Author
David Mitchell
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. – Alanis Morissette

Category:
Age

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

Category:
Age

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. – Annie Dillard

Category:
Age

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. – Rita Dove

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

My movies are okay, but theyre not my specials. – Chris Rock

Category:
movies

Around 93, 94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. – Marc Andreessen

Category:
Wisdom

Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and Americas leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him. – John Podhoretz

Category:
Leadership

As a whole part of psychological education it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that adjustment to a sick and insane environment is of itself not health but sickness and insanity. – James Agee

Category:
Insanity