Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness. .. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“..there’s sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don’t make out what is right in front… — 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
High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“This, in a nutshell, is Hinduism, and I have been a Hindu all my life. With its notions in mind I see… — 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,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was,… — 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
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
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever,… — 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
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It begins in your mind, always. One moment you are feeling calm, self-possessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered… — 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
