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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. "

Yann Martel

Failure

Success

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" 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. "

Yann Martel

Things

Need

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

" It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. "

" I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. "

Yann Martel

Outside

Years

" 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. "

" May books spread the world over! "

" Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. "

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

" A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. "

" I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. "

" The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. "

" I'm still learning my craft. "

" My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it? "

" Most of us get our history through story. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that. "

" The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story. "

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

" Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. "

" Cinema is incredibly concise. "