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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

- David Mitchell
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David Mitchell
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I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

The words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' are literally the same - the flavor is the same, the educational level is the same. But you just know when to use maybe and when to use perhaps. I think it's because of this: You get to know the tastes or musical tastes of words themselves, and this informs your choice, whether you use them or not.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

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.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

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Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.