David Mitchell Quotes

United Kingdom, Novelist
January 12, 1969

David Stephen Mitchell is an English novelist. He has published seven novels, two of which, number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004), were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

David Mitchell
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

David Mitchell
- Past
- Dad
- Brave

When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.

David Mitchell
- Great
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

David Mitchell
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

David Mitchell
- World
- Beautiful