I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land. Yann Martel actatopbeautiful Change image and share on social
'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write. Yann Martel lifesimplewrite Change image and share on social
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel expectfictionfollow Change image and share on social
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 animaldentistdisbelief Change image and share on social
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. Yann Martel artdiscomfortfit Change image and share on social
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 answerartbackground share on social
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. Yann Martel crowdimaginemovie Change image and share on social
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 bookdancemind Change image and share on social
