Yann Martel Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.”

“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.”

“In all big cities the style of life is the same. Same endless array of restaurants; same big museums with the usual suspects; same anonymity, which can be thrilling when you're young but which I found got tiresome.”

“If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.”

“A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.”

“I am not an autobiographical writer.”

“I write slowly.”

“I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.”

“If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.”

“'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.”