Yann Martel Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• 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.

• That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

  Yann Martel

  Reality, Essence, Fiction

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.8, Canongate Books

• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Reading, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?

  Yann Martel

  Dream, Reality, Ideas

• 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

  Uplifting, Moving, Reality

• The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea.

  Yann Martel

  Sex, Crazy, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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