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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Yann Martel
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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's a good country to write from because in many ways Canada is the world.
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I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say Oh, I don't read much fiction, as if the history of the United States, just as an example, isn't an exercise in storytelling and myth-making.
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I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
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Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.
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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.
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In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
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There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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Why can't reason give greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer? Why such a vast net if there's so little fish to catch?
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It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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