David Mitchell

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

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

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

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

It has always been my plan not to serve more than two terms.