“Un libro leído a medias es una aventura amorosa incompleta.”
Source: Cloud Atlas
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Famous David Mitchell Quotes
“I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.”
Source: Ghostwritten
“I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.”
“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.”
Source: Number9Dream: A Novel
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.”
Source: Black Swan Green
Source: Ghostwritten
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel
“Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.”
Source: Cloud Atlas: A Novel