Yann Martel Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Eye, Long

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl's kiss on your cheek.

  Yann Martel

  Girl, Powerful, Book

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Unique, People

  Yann Martel (2009). “What Is Stephen Harper Reading?: Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes”, p.152, Vintage Canada

• Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.

  Yann Martel

  Soccer, Baseball, Team

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.7, Canongate Books

• In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Imagination, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Book, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Hate, Book

• 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

  Book, Reading, Thinking

• 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

  Book, Different, Cinema

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 6, 2007.

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

  Yann Martel

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

• 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

  Book, Writing, Mind

• My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Wish, Salvation

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.230, Vintage Canada

• What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.

  Yann Martel

  Book, Littles, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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