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“Adverbs are cholesterol in the veins of prose. Halve your adverbs and your prose pumps twice as well.” Pens scratch. “Oh, and beware of the verb ‘seem’; it’s a textual mumble. And grade every simile and metaphor from one star to five, and remove any threes or below. It hurts when you operate, but afterwards you feel much better.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Spring adds, summer multiplies, autumn subtracts, winter divides.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“The world’s twenty-seven richest people own more wealth than the poorest five billion, and people accept that as normal.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Life’s more science-fictiony by the day.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks