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.

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

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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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