My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
YANN MARTELMy feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.
YANN MARTELIf you don’t have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
YANN MARTELDespair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
YANN MARTELI ask you, is it the fig tree’s fault that it’s not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
YANN MARTELIn art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying.
YANN MARTELMy gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
YANN MARTELAll living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
YANN MARTELJesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
YANN MARTELWhy make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
YANN MARTELHow long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
YANN MARTELI am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it’s sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It’s a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
YANN MARTELIt’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.
YANN MARTELWe were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
YANN MARTELWe are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
YANN MARTELI would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer
YANN MARTELQuickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you’ve defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.
YANN MARTEL