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" I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. "

Yann Martel

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

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

Yann Martel

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" I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. "

" 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'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

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

" Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. "

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

Yann Martel

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

" You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. "

" I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. "

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

" 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. "

" May books spread the world over! "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I am not an autobiographical writer. "

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

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