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Yann Martel
Yann Martel
Canadian Author
Born: Jun 25, 1963
Book Cinema Fiction Life Me You
Related authors: Ann Voskamp Douglas Coupland Farley Mowat Justine Musk Malcolm Gladwell Merle Shain Michael Ondaatje Rob Pike
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
Reality Interpretation Imagination Some Volition Part How Fiction Which Means Play Interpret Extent
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. Yann Martel
Faith You Trust Cling Go Whereas Fanatics Belief Let Go
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. Yann Martel
Life You Big Style Young Cities Restaurants Thrilling Anonymity Got Big Cities Array Same Endless Suspects Tiresome Which Usual Found Museums
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. Yann Martel
Book Brilliant Reading Club Think Book Club Meeting Books Something Writer Idea Reader Making Center Social Speaking Event
May books spread the world over! Yann Martel
World Books Over Spread May
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 effect. Yann Martel
Work Music Nature Me Thoughts Reality Emotions Words Carefully Other Out Vanishes Magic Window Having More Opening Like How Duh Effect Hand Lingering Uplifting Ends Moves Laid Fleeting Shut
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. Yann Martel
Thoughts Emotions Words Better Relating Much
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. Yann Martel
Life Failure My Life Think Would Would-Be Children
I write slowly. Yann Martel
Slowly Write
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. Yann Martel
Life Simple Write Very Novel Actually
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. Yann Martel
Me Book Idea Non-Fiction Still Fiction Really Flip Appeals
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. Yann Martel
Art World Sense Think Some Discomfort Fitting Quite
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. Yann Martel
Art Religion You Evil Secular Live Background Claims Bounds Beyond Answer How Go Existence Very Human Whereas Human Existence Certainly
I am not an autobiographical writer. Yann Martel
Writer Am Autobiographical
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. Yann Martel
Animals About Like Ideas Disbelief Reader Because Suspend Rhinoceros Certain Help Many Using
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel
You Rules Follow Write Genre Readers Because Expect Fiction Them
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want. Yann Martel
Success Failure Book Every Has-Been Something Previous Write Attempt Written Understand Been Irrelevant Different Want
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. Yann Martel
You Overwhelming Out Crowd Tends Powerful How Movie Might Things Imagined
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. Yann Martel
Experience Cinema Complete Something Powerful Like Audience Different Movies Really
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. Yann Martel
Book Cinema Language Prose Very Than Different Movie Translate Successfully
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. Yann Martel
Hate Clothes Consumer Like Mobile Just Things Buying Need

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