Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.” — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I must say a word about fear. It's is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,… — Yann Martel Copy Share
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence were… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“I never had problems with my fellow scientists. Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of… — Yann Martel Copy Share
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel Copy Share
“Uvek ima onih koji uzmu za pravo da brane Boga, kao da je Poslednja stvarnost, kao da je temeljni ram postojanja nešto slabašno i… — Yann Martel Copy Share
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- its envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with… — Yann Martel Copy Share
