Don’t you bully me with your politeness! Yann Martel More Quotes by Yann Martel More Quotes From Yann Martel Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you. Yann Martel allies over-you decision Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing. Yann Martel losing enough might I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. Yann Martel meaningful order believe [The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals. Yann Martel fate animal past The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. Yann Martel cinema different book There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day. Yann Martel sunny sunny-day peace I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it. Yann Martel perfection sea water 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? Yann Martel mind writing book 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 clothes hate needs If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel genre writing fiction 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. Yann Martel uplifting reality moving Everything was screaming: the sea, the wind, my heart. Yann Martel sea heart wind Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed. Yann Martel despair light expression 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 reading book thinking My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book. Yann Martel salvation wish book There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is. Yann Martel matter animal thinking I love Canada. Its a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. Yann Martel political land beautiful Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts. Yann Martel emotion If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Yann Martel life-of-pi-book belief believe A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe. Yann Martel novelists pages communication
