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

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

Yann Martel

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

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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

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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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Most of us get our history through story.

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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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I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

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

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

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Cinema is incredibly concise.

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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

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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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May books spread the world over!

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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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