Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“... and I knew what I wanted: I would settle in a hill station and write my novel. I had visions of… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write.… — 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
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. — 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
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
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
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
“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
