The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
YANN MARTELLife on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
More Yann Martel Quotes
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they’re doing and why they’re doing it.
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…for everything has a trace of the divine in it.
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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.
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And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle.
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I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.
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For fear, real fear such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it.
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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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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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I have a story that will make you believe in God.
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We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts,’ as you say in English.” Isn’t telling about something–using words, English or Japanese–already something of an invention? Isn’t just looking upon this world already something of an invention?
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The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three.
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I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
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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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