If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It's hard to visualize James Bond without seeing one of the actors who played him. And it's hard to visualize Harry Potter… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights… — 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
