Top 38 Quotes by Yann Martel

About Yann Martel

These are some quotes by Canadian author Yann Martel Author, who was born on June 25, 1963.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

Yann Martel

I'm still learning my craft.

I'm still learning my craft.

Yann Martel

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

Yann Martel

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

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

Yann Martel

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

Yann Martel

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

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

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.

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

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

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