'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. ~Yann Martel
Life Simple Novel
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. ~Yann Martel
Work Great Unpredictable
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. ~Yann Martel
Page Will Image
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it. ~Yann Martel
Happy Good Be Happy
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
Book Reading Meeting
Cinema is incredibly concise. ~Yann Martel
Cinema Concise Incredibly
Cinema is visually powerful, it is a complete experience, reaches a different audience. It's something I really like. I like movies. ~Yann Martel
Experience Powerful Movies
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
Success Failure Book
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling. ~Yann Martel
Trust Faith Belief
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. ~Yann Martel
Art Religion Evil
I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point. ~Yann Martel
Live Canada Point
I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds. ~Yann Martel
People Movies Story
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
Help Ideas Animals
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. ~Yann Martel
Love Beautiful Faith
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. ~Yann Martel
Art World Think
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet. ~Yann Martel
Beautiful Happy Planet
I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist. ~Yann Martel
Life Trying Looking
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
Hate Clothes Need
I'm still learning my craft. ~Yann Martel
Learning Craft Still
If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested. ~Yann Martel
Timing Film Right