Writer Quotes by Yann Martel

I write slowly.

— Yann Martel

May books spread the world over!

— Yann Martel

I am not an autobiographical writer.

— Yann Martel

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

— Yann Martel

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

— Yann Martel

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

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…

— Yann Martel

My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn.…

— Yann Martel

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of…

— Yann Martel

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I…

— Yann Martel

Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both.…

— Yann Martel

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…

— Yann Martel

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is…

— Yann Martel

People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need…

— Yann Martel

I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do.…

— Yann Martel

“You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to…

— Yann Martel

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of…

— Yann Martel

“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch…

— Yann Martel

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…

— Yann Martel

Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between…

— Yann Martel

It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be…

— Yann Martel

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.…

— Yann Martel