Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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?
Yann Martel
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Writing
Turn
Every
Pleasure
Mind
Working
Would
Turns
Write
Next
Didn
Thrills
Book
Dances
More quotes by Yann Martel
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.
Yann Martel
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
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of loveābut sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up.
Yann Martel
My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour - calm, quiet and introspective - did something to soothe my shattered self.
Yann Martel
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
Yann Martel
It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter without seeing Daniel Radcliffe. A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
Yann Martel
I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
Yann Martel
It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
Yann Martel
science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
Yann Martel
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
Yann Martel
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel
Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget for special effects is absolutely unlimited.
Yann Martel
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
Yann Martel
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
Yann Martel
Religion is more than rite and ritual.
Yann Martel
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
Yann Martel
Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.
Yann Martel
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
Yann Martel
First wonder goes deepest wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
Yann Martel
A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
Yann Martel