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
To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow?… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long. — 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
How bitterly glad I am to see you. You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sitting in an office for TOO long is not natural, perhaps, so that's why we should change it. I didn't say that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It’s a big ocean crossed by busy ships. I went slowly, observing much.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
