David Mitchell

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“Ghostwritten’s secret agenda is to offer up eight different answers to the question, "Why do things happen?" so it has the right to monkey about with time and history. number9dreams’s secret agenda is to offer eight different answers to the question, "In what space does the mind operate?"”
— Interview in Stop Smiling magazine (29 June 2007)
“As long as you can Houdini your way out of the Sisyphean constraints then originality happens.”
— Interview "David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand" at ABC.net (30 March 2008)
“I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.”
— "Okinawa"
“The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.”
— "Clear Island"
“The body is the outermost layer of the mind.”
— Part 6
“If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be any religious people.”
— Hugo Lamb ??

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