Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business… — 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
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
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I meet a number of people as a writer of fiction who say "Oh, I don't read much fiction," as if the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and… — 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
Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I love Canada...It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should… — 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
