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  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
  • Yann Martel Quote - If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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  2. grey
  3. blue
  4. red
  5. brown
  6. white

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

Yann Martel

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - …for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

    …for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

    Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

    I can’t live for more than four years outside of Canada. I’m Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - That’s what fiction is about, isn’t it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence? Download This Image

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

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal. Download This Image

    Once you’ve been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying. Download This Image

    There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It’s extraordinarily satisfying.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

    If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!

    Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness–how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I’ve got!

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

    We think we live in a global village. We don’t. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.

    I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view. Download This Image

    Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it’s a sad view.

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    How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.

    I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. Download This Image

    Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

    Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Yann Martel Quote - My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

    My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

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