Yann Martel

“An epic simplicity”

— Yann Martel

Cinema is incredibly concise.

— Yann Martel

“Art is rooted in joy.”

— Yann Martel

I write slowly.

— Yann Martel

“Above all, don't lose hope”

— Yann Martel

“wild are, in practice,”

— Yann Martel

“seem to bear flowers or”

— Yann Martel

I'm still learning my craft.

— Yann Martel

“tiptoe to the water’s edge. They show their raiments.”

— Yann Martel

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

— Yann Martel

Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.

— Yann Martel

But I want to pray to Allah. I want to be a Christian.

— Yann Martel

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

— Yann Martel

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

— Yann Martel

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

— Yann Martel

“..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

— Yann Martel

“Everything in me, right down to the pores of my skin, was expressing joy.”

— Yann Martel

“Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

— Yann Martel

“The reward for the watching eye and listening ear is great.”

— Yann Martel

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

— Yann Martel

“It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.”

— Yann Martel

“Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time." Page 212.”

— Yann Martel

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

— Yann Martel

I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

— Yann Martel

“was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of…

— Yann Martel

A movie tends to box you in, at least as far as the aesthetics. You have an incredibly kinetic experience, which is…

— Yann Martel

“Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love—but sometimes it was so…

— Yann Martel

Nature can put on a thrilling show. The stage is vast, the lighting is dramatic, the extras are innumerable, and the budget…

— Yann Martel

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too…

— Yann Martel

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of…

— Yann Martel

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

“Readers will easily recognize the cover of a book they've read, but in a cafe that man over there, is that...is that...well,…

— Yann Martel

“When I corrected her, I told her that in fact she was not so wrong; that Hindus, in their capacity for love,…

— Yann Martel

“I still smart a little at the slight. When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable…

— Yann Martel

“Whereas before the road, the sea, the trees, the airm the sun all spoke differently to me, now they spoke one language…

— Yann Martel

“She looked beautiful. And sad. For she was leaving India, India of the heat and monsoons, of rice fields and the Cauvery…

— Yann Martel

“Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we…

— Yann Martel

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are…

— Yann Martel

“to shriek and to slam the door shut repeatedly—with a deafening clang each time—until the keeper, notified by a visitor, hurried over…

— Yann Martel

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had…

— Yann Martel