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" The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction. "
Yann Martel
Fiction
Book
Idea
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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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" 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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Turn
" Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. "
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" If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. "
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" I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. "
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Faith
" A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. "
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Powerful
Crowd
" 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. "
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Things
Need
Like
" 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. "
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Evil
Religion
You
" If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. "
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Genre
Follow
" The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. "
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Language
Cinema
Book
" I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. "
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Outside
Years
More
" I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. "
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Big
Well
Beautiful
" May books spread the world over! "
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World
Spread
Over
" I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. "
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Movies
People
Story
" 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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Failure
Success
Understand
" I am not an autobiographical writer. "
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Autobiographical
Writer
I Am
" A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. "
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Image
Movie
Page
" 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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Work
Words
Thoughts
" 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. "
Yann Martel
Words
You
Try
" 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. "
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Like
Help
Because
" 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. "
Yann Martel
Club
Book
Meeting
" 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. "
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Imagination
Some
Reality
" I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. "
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Dead
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" 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. "
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Young
Same
Style
" You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time. "
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Sugar
Pain
Measure
" If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure. "
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Think
Children
" I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. "
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Art
Discomfort
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" Most of us get our history through story. "
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History
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Story
" Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. "
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Emotions
Words