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" 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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" May books spread the world over! "
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" 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. "
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" Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. "
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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. "
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" Cinema is incredibly concise. "
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" I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. "
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" The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. "
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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