Yann Martel Quotes & Sayings
38 most famous Yann Martel quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.”
“I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.”
“I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.”
“Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.”
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