Words matter. These are the best Yann Martel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Fanatics do not have faith – they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
If I didn’t have children, I think my life would be a failure.
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.
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
I’m looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I’m a taxidermist.
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.
The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
I write slowly.
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people’s minds.
I love Canada. It’s a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
You can’t quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.
I’m still learning my craft.
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It’s something I really like. I like movies.
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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.
Cinema is incredibly concise.
I am not an autobiographical writer.
