Canadian - Author | June 25, 1963 -
If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.
Yann Martel
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I write slowly.
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Most of us get our history through story.
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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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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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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I'm still learning my craft.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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