Yann Martel quotes - page 6

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

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

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To my mind, faith is like being in the sun. When you are in the sun, can you avoid creating a shadow? Can you shake that area of darkness that clings to you, always shaped like you, as if constantly to remind you of yourself? You can't. This shadow is doubt. And it goes wherever you go as long as you stay in the sun. And who wouldn't want to be in the sun?

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How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.

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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.

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I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

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Yann Martel

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Photo: Shane Lin from Seattle, WA, USA, aka 'About Malenkov in Exile' on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.5

Occupation: Canadian Author
Born: June 25, 1963
Quotes count: 135
Wikipedia: Yann Martel

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