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.
The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.
When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point in your life. When you're in a hotel room on the border between India and Nepal you can really discover things about yourself.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.
I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.
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