It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

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

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Movies Tend Aesthetic Story

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

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

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

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Measure Quantify Human Pain

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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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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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Cities Big Style Same

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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.

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Books Social Writer Speaking

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May books spread the world over!

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May Books Spread World

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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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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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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.

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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.

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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

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Words Much Better Emotions

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

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Moral Story Temporarily Fable

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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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Book Written Attempt Understand

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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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Canada Wonderful Political Faith

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

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

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Think Comes Sense Discomfort

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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.

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"22 Yann Martel Quotes & Sayings

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Yann Martel

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

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

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

Yann Martel

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

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.

Yann Martel

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

May books spread the world over!

Yann Martel

Yann Martel

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

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.

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

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

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

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

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.

Yann Martel

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

Yann Martel

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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