Canadian - Author | June 25, 1963 -
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.
Yann Martel
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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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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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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