Quote

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

Yann Martel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Single
Cramped
Views
Vastness
Things
Entry
Life
Dwell
Brief
Onto
Tiny
View

More quotes by Yann Martel

Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
Yann Martel
Image
Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.
Yann Martel
Image
We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?
Yann Martel
Image
I love cinema. I think the risk of the aesthetics being fixed is compensated by other advantages. Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies.
Yann Martel
Image
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
Yann Martel
Image
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
Yann Martel
Image
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.
Yann Martel
Image
Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
Yann Martel
Image
I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
Yann Martel
Image
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
Yann Martel
Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.
Yann Martel
Image
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
Yann Martel
Image
When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God became nothing to me but a dyslexic dog, with neither bark nor bite.
Yann Martel
Image
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.
Yann Martel
Image
I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.
Yann Martel
Image
My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
Yann Martel
Image
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Yann Martel
Image
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
Yann Martel
Image
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
Yann Martel
Image
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel