“The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond… — 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
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an… — 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
