Yann Martel Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

  Yann Martel

  Motivational, Music, Dream

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.12, Canongate Books

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  Yann Martel

  Mean, Reality, Play

  "May Richard Parker be always at your side". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2002.

• I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

  Yann Martel

  White, Light, Self

  Yann Martel (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

  Yann Martel

  Imagination, And Love, India

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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