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My feelings can perhaps be imagined, but they can hardly be described.

Yann Martel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
War subjects itself to transportation in a way that we find acceptable.
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Transportation War Way
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
Christianity is a religion in a rush.
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Christianity Religion Rush
Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
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Animal Stories Together
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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Beautiful Jealous Life
The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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Book Fiction Ideas
Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.
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Christianity Devotion God Religion
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.
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Go Hard Work Letting Writing
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Fiction Genre Writing
Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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Afrerwards God Over
I spent more hours than I can count a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet. It is something so bright, loud, weird and delicate as to stupefy the senses.
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Earth Expression Grace
…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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Divine Everything Trace
We are all born like Catholics, aren’t we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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Born Catholic Introducing
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very

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