"Books are something social - a writer speaking……" — Yann Martel
"Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea."
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214 Quotes by Yann Martel
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of…
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's…
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