I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way… — 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
You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The paths to liberation are numerous, but the bank along the way is always the same, the Bank of Karma, where the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it… — 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
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
Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a… — 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
