I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.
YANN MARTELIf you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
More Yann Martel Quotes
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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It’s amazing how willpower can build walls.
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You may not believe in life, but I don’t believe in death. Move on!
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To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It is like losing–I’m sorry, I would rather not go on.
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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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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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Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
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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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As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.
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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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Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they’re all we have.
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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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Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that’s creation in frenzy.
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You can get used to anything – haven’t I already said that? Isn’t that what all survivors say?
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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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