Yann Martel Quotes

• Words aren’t very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren’t good at that.

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  Tags in Good, Mind, Words

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

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  Tags in Better, Words, Thoughts

• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

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  Tags in Moral, Story, Eternal

• The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.

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  Tags in Book, Different, Language

• The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

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  Tags in Book, Still, Idea

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

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  Tags in Reality, Play, Means

• My next book – each one while I’m working on it – dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn’t, why would I write it?

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  Tags in Mind, Book, Why

• Music moves me – duh – and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effec

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  Tags in Music

• Most of us get our history through story.

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  Tags in Through, Story

• May books spread the world over!

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  Tags in May, Over, Books

• ‘Life of Pi’ was actually a very simple novel to write.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Simple, Write

• It’s true, too, that I’m tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.

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  Tags in Tired, True, Political

• In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you’re young but which I found got tiresome.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Same, Young

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

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  Tags in Write, Expect, Rules

• If I didn’t have children, I think my life would be a failure.

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  Topics in Children, Failure, Life

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

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  Tags in Film, Might, Interested

• I’m still learning my craft.

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  Tags in Learning, Still, Craft

• I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.

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  Tags in Hate, Need, Clothes

• I’m looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I’m a taxidermist.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Give, Trying

• I’m happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

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  Tags in Beautiful, Happy, Pretty

Yann Martel (57)

Birth:	25th June, 1963
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Novelist

About

Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain. He is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, a international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. He is also the author of the novels Beatrice and Virgil and Self. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction. His first published fictional work, Seven Stories, appeared in 1993.

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