Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!
YANN MARTELI would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.
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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He’s a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
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When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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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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My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.
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Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
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First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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The animals might embody certain traits. We think of tigers as being ferocious, etc. But to my mind, it was the other way around: the humans embodied certain animal traits.
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I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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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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The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.
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science can only take you so far and then you have to leap
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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
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I 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.
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Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?
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