David Mitchell Quotes

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

They're my burka... I'm a little shortsighted, and people, when they're shortsighted, they remove their glasses and then they look like cute little dogs who want to be adopted.

Re-reading is much underrated. I've read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Books are like tweets, except longer.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?" Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading.

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

To start with, look at all the books.

Some people read books for fun.

No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.

I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.