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Yann Martel Quotes

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: June 25, 1963

Topics

Art World Think Discomfort Sense

I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.

Jodie Whittaker

Time Book Reading Quiet Person Up

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

John F. Kennedy

Power Problem Place Now Vietnam Our

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

Good Future Space Enough More See

I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.

Moment Culture American Pop Culture

The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

Change Freedom Power Past People

New York periodically goes through a real estate crisis. I didn't subscribe to the school that real estate only goes up.

School New York Real Estate New Real

I thought it was hilarious when 'Brace for Impact' was released, and people said I had abandoned country, even though the song is dripping with pedal steel. If anything, that tells me I'm making progress.

Sturgill Simpson

Progress People Me Song Thought

I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.

Alone Bike Childhood Doing Three

I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.

Influence Feel Who Like Writer Any

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Girl Day Song Feel Young Kind

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Funny Love Fly Sound Deadlines Like

There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.

Anthony Trollope

Road Easy Wealth Matrimony

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